Meaning not yet researched.
Harriett: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 17 in 2025. Its best rank was #156 in 1880.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #156 in 1880; #6,641 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Harriett in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,641 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1880, at #156.
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Harriett: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 17 girls in 2025. Peak: #156 in 1880 · most girls in one year: 585 (1920).
In 2025, 17 US girls were named Harriett, making it the 6,641st most common girls’ name of the year, up 4,832 places from #11,473 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 8 girls named Harriett in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #156, reached in 1880. The most girls given the name in a single year was 585, in 1920. For comparison, it was #10,400 in 2015 and #514 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harriett in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 83 babies. In all, 21,626 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 4,602 babies named Harriett.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 109 US girls were named Harriett; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,545 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Harriet (90,427 babies since 1880) and Harriette (8,740 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Harryette are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Harryette (221).
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 Harriett in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,641 | — | — |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,473 | — | — |
| 2023 | 14 | #7,784 | — | — |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,586 | — | — |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,825 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,632 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,292 | — | — |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,520 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,216 | — | — |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,364 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,400 | — | — |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,817 | — | — |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,613 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,755 | — | — |
| 2010 | 5 | #17,978 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,028 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #18,151 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,061 | — | — |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,511 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,400 | — | — |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,926 | — | — |
| 1999 | 5 | #15,261 | — | — |
| 1998 | 5 | #14,988 | — | — |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,642 | — | — |
| 1996 | 5 | #14,301 | — | — |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,231 | — | — |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,207 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,331 | — | — |
| 1992 | 17 | #5,569 | — | — |
| 1991 | 19 | #5,057 | — | — |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,491 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #5,934 | — | — |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,323 | — | — |
| 1987 | 16 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,801 | — | — |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,707 | — | — |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,560 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,858 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,781 | — | — |
| 1981 | 25 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,023 | — | — |
| 1979 | 21 | #3,700 | — | — |
| 1978 | 18 | #3,964 | — | — |
| 1977 | 22 | #3,413 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,987 | — | — |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,318 | — | — |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,316 | — | — |
| 1973 | 35 | #2,238 | — | — |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,701 | — | — |
| 1971 | 41 | #2,045 | — | — |
| 1970 | 59 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 1969 | 56 | #1,598 | — | — |
| 1968 | 53 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,289 | — | — |
| 1966 | 77 | #1,226 | — | — |
| 1965 | 91 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1964 | 103 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1963 | 101 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1962 | 131 | #927 | — | — |
| 1961 | 141 | #912 | — | — |
| 1960 | 152 | #840 | — | — |
| 1959 | 143 | #855 | — | — |
| 1958 | 153 | #815 | — | — |
| 1957 | 159 | #802 | — | — |
| 1956 | 178 | #726 | — | — |
| 1955 | 182 | #696 | — | — |
| 1954 | 221 | #610 | — | — |
| 1953 | 244 | #559 | — | — |
| 1952 | 204 | #611 | — | — |
| 1951 | 262 | #512 | — | — |
| 1950 | 252 | #514 | — | — |
| 1949 | 250 | #516 | — | — |
| 1948 | 277 | #483 | — | — |
| 1947 | 335 | #446 | — | — |
| 1946 | 295 | #452 | — | — |
| 1945 | 274 | #432 | — | — |
| 1944 | 309 | #407 | — | — |
| 1943 | 344 | #392 | — | — |
| 1942 | 356 | #377 | — | — |
| 1941 | 320 | #381 | — | — |
| 1940 | 304 | #380 | 5 | #3,661 |
| 1939 | 299 | #382 | — | — |
| 1938 | 345 | #345 | — | — |
| 1937 | 334 | #352 | — | — |
| 1936 | 297 | #368 | — | — |
| 1935 | 272 | #386 | — | — |
| 1934 | 273 | #390 | — | — |
| 1933 | 283 | #383 | — | — |
| 1932 | 300 | #372 | — | — |
| 1931 | 305 | #367 | — | — |
| 1930 | 330 | #372 | — | — |
| 1929 | 322 | #374 | — | — |
| 1928 | 379 | #348 | — | — |
| 1927 | 399 | #336 | — | — |
| 1926 | 379 | #343 | — | — |
| 1925 | 462 | #309 | — | — |
| 1924 | 492 | #301 | — | — |
| 1923 | 522 | #283 | — | — |
| 1922 | 519 | #286 | — | — |
| 1921 | 543 | #284 | — | — |
| 1920 | 585 | #270 | — | — |
| 1919 | 527 | #277 | — | — |
| 1918 | 564 | #268 | — | — |
| 1917 | 542 | #266 | — | — |
| 1916 | 511 | #268 | — | — |
| 1915 | 460 | #275 | — | — |
| 1914 | 359 | #274 | — | — |
| 1913 | 260 | #293 | — | — |
| 1912 | 262 | #278 | — | — |
| 1911 | 177 | #294 | — | — |
| 1910 | 177 | #290 | — | — |
| 1909 | 141 | #305 | — | — |
| 1908 | 115 | #332 | — | — |
| 1907 | 145 | #287 | — | — |
| 1906 | 134 | #287 | — | — |
| 1905 | 116 | #313 | — | — |
| 1904 | 104 | #319 | — | — |
| 1903 | 112 | #294 | — | — |
| 1902 | 108 | #305 | — | — |
| 1901 | 101 | #300 | — | — |
| 1900 | 150 | #267 | — | — |
| 1899 | 116 | #266 | — | — |
| 1898 | 144 | #245 | — | — |
| 1897 | 118 | #261 | — | — |
| 1896 | 131 | #243 | — | — |
| 1895 | 127 | #245 | — | — |
| 1894 | 118 | #252 | — | — |
| 1893 | 119 | #242 | — | — |
| 1892 | 111 | #252 | — | — |
| 1891 | 101 | #241 | — | — |
| 1890 | 114 | #228 | — | — |
| 1889 | 105 | #228 | — | — |
| 1888 | 118 | #208 | — | — |
| 1887 | 89 | #221 | — | — |
| 1886 | 92 | #205 | — | — |
| 1885 | 78 | #222 | — | — |
| 1884 | 105 | #171 | — | — |
| 1883 | 91 | #175 | — | — |
| 1882 | 91 | #168 | — | — |
| 1881 | 86 | #157 | — | — |
| 1880 | 83 | #156 | — | — |
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).