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Harry

Pronounced /ˈhæɹi/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1928 · #965
Origin
French, Germanic
Also recorded for boys:322 in 2024 (#778)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No girls were recorded as Harry in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1928 with 60 babies, ranked #965.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 2,018 girls have been named Harry since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

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    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
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    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 762 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 530 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Boomers: 300 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 167 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 53 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Medieval English spoken form of Old French Henri.

  • A male given name.
  • A male given name from the Germanic languages.
  • A male given name from French, originating as an Anglicization of Henri
  • A diminutive of the male given name Henry, Harold.
Origin
French, Germanic
Say it
/ˈhæɹi/

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