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Harry

Pronounced /ˈhæɹi/

Rank in 2024
#778
Born in 2024
322
Peak year
1918 · #20
Origin
French, Germanic
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 322 boys were named Harry, about 1 in every 5,327.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 9,896 babies, ranked #20.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 423,531 boys 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.

  1. 9.1
    Greatest
  2. 4.8
    Silent
  3. 2.1
    Boomers
  4. 0.8
    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 152,943 babies, 9.15 per 1,000. Silent: 100,076 babies, 4.85 per 1,000. Boomers: 80,652 babies, 2.15 per 1,000. Gen X: 21,896 babies, 0.80 per 1,000. Millennials: 10,678 babies, 0.35 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,715 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 4,320 babies, 0.20 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.