In 2025, 12 US girls were named Harriette, making it the 8,548th most common girls’ name of the year, up 5,539 places from #14,087 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 6 girls named Harriette in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #345, reached in 1882. The most girls given the name in a single year was 281, in 1917. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #861 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Harriette in 119 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 19 babies. In all, 8,740 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,163 babies named Harriette.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 70 US girls were named Harriette; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Harriett (21,626 babies since 1880) and Harriet (90,427 babies since 1880).
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