Harry

What Harry means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Harry yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1918, with 9,896 babies; 329 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Harry?

US: Steady: #779 in 2015, #775 now. England & Wales: Falling: down from #3 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1889, when 2,559 boys got the name (#8 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 5,192 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 158 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 164 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in OK (0.51 per 1,000 boys), NY (0.5 per 1,000 boys), NJ (0.45 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Harry is #775 in the US and #19 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Harry were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Harri0 US · 100 E&W
• Hari23 US · 54 E&W
• Haru29 US
• Harrai0 US · 3 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Harry

Boys

• Roger#832“fame-spear”^*
• Dustin#728possibly “Thor s stone”^*
• Albert#614“noble + bright, famous”^*
• Leonard#637“lion”^*
• Charles#48“free man”^*
• Frank#513Form of Francis, meaning “Frankish (man); a Frank”^*

For a sister

• Anne#619Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1959, with 5,745 babies; 472 in 2025
• Jessie#823Diminutive of Jessica, possibly meaning “Iscah in Genesis 11:29…^*
• Linda#902“tender, soft”^*
• Robin#704Diminutive of Robert, meaning “shining glory”^*
• Danielle#549Feminine form of Daniel, meaning “God is my judge”^*
• Alicia#460Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1984, with 7,820 babies; 672 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Harry’s. Rank is US 2025.