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Harper

Pronounced /ˈhɑɹpɚ/

Rank in 2024
#12
Born in 2024
7,370
Peak year
2016 · #11
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for boys:91 in 2024 (#1,799)

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 7,370 girls were named Harper, about 1 in every 219.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 10,802 babies, ranked #11.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1971.
  • 132,214 girls have been named Harper since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Harper per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. 0
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.7
    Gen Z
  7. 5.5
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 50 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 349 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Z: 20,470 babies, 0.70 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 111,345 babies, 5.48 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Inherited from Middle English Harpere.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
  • A female given name transferred from the surname, of modern usage.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈhɑɹpɚ/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Harper, CC BY-SA 4.0.