Meaning not yet researched.
Harbor: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 56 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,258 in 2018.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,258 in 2018; #2,971 in 2025. About 66% of babies named Harbor in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,971 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2018, at #2,258.
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Harbor: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 56 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,258 in 2018 · most girls in one year: 81 (2021).
In 2025, 56 US girls were named Harbor, making it the 2,971st most common girls’ name of the year, up 506 places from #3,477 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 45 girls named Harbor in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,258, reached in 2018. The most girls given the name in a single year was 81, in 2021. For comparison, it was #2,822 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 29 US boys were named Harbor, making it the 3,792nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 41 places from #3,833 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 29 boys named Harbor in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,017, reached in 2018. That year also had the most boys given the name: 39. For comparison, it was #4,210 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harbor in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2006 with 13 babies. In all, 1,258 US babies have been given the name, 67% of them girls and 33% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 656 babies named Harbor.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 628 US girls were named Harbor; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 81. In 2025 that was about 1 in 28,701 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Harbor ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,760 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Harbour are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Harbour (142).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Harbor in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 7 | #1,760 | #1,544 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,061 | #2,272 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,971 | 29 | #3,792 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,477 | 29 | #3,833 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,568 | 24 | #4,385 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,432 | 25 | #4,217 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,275 | 37 | #3,208 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,110 | 24 | #4,193 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,193 | 32 | #3,519 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,258 | 39 | #3,017 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,068 | 28 | #3,819 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,627 | 27 | #3,919 |
| 2015 | 62 | #2,822 | 24 | #4,210 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,742 | 27 | #3,832 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,034 | 15 | #5,759 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,979 | 16 | #5,569 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,816 | 14 | #6,051 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,721 | — | — |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,876 | 11 | #7,380 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,270 | 10 | #7,893 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,813 | 7 | #9,941 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).