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Harry

Boys' name · Early 20th-century perennial

Living in the US
~120,700 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
#775 among boys
Births in 2025
329 425,883 since 1880
Typical age
69 years, median

Harry popularity over time

Harry rank by birth year, 1880–2025Harry ranked #12 in 1880 and #775 in 2025. Its best rank in the period was #8, in 1889.#10#100#1,000#775best #8 in 188918901920195019802010
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1880–2025. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

The high point was 1918: 9,938 births recorded as Harry. It appears in the very first year SSA covers, 1880. Across the record, 78 years put Harry in the top 100.

In 2025 it ranked #775 with 329 births.

Babies named Harry per yearPeaks at 9,938 births in 1918.9,938 in 1918018901920195019802010
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Harry?

About 120,700 people named Harry are alive in the United States today. That is out of 425,883 recorded births since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Harry?

Half of living Harrys are older than 69, half younger. More of them were born in the 1950s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Harry a early 20th-century perennial name.

Your Harry

Ages of living people named HarryHalf of living Harrys are older than 69 and half younger.median 69020406080100
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Where Harry is most common

The name is concentrated in Massachusetts, at 2.6× the national rate. New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania follow.

Where Harry is used more than average5 states use the name Harry more than the national average.Alaska: not over-representedAKMaine: not over-representedMEVermont: not over-representedVTNew Hampshire: not over-representedNHWashington: not over-representedWAIdaho: not over-representedIDMontana: not over-representedMTNorth Dakota: not over-representedNDMinnesota: not over-representedMNIllinois: not over-representedILWisconsin: not over-representedWIMichigan: not over-representedMINew York: 2.3× the national rateNYOregon: not over-representedORNevada: not over-representedNVWyoming: not over-representedWYSouth Dakota: not over-representedSDIowa: not over-representedIAIndiana: not over-representedINOhio: not over-representedOHPennsylvania: 1.6× the national ratePANew Jersey: 2.2× the national rateNJConnecticut: not over-representedCTRhode Island: not over-representedRICalifornia: not over-representedCAUtah: not over-representedUTColorado: not over-representedCONebraska: not over-representedNEMissouri: not over-representedMOKentucky: not over-representedKYWest Virginia: not over-representedWVVirginia: not over-representedVAMaryland: 1.4× the national rateMDDelaware: not over-representedDEMassachusetts: 2.6× the national rateMAArizona: not over-representedAZNew Mexico: not over-representedNMKansas: not over-representedKSArkansas: not over-representedARTennessee: not over-representedTNNorth Carolina: not over-representedNCSouth Carolina: not over-representedSCDistrict of Columbia: not over-representedDCOklahoma: not over-representedOKLouisiana: not over-representedLAMississippi: not over-representedMSAlabama: not over-representedALGeorgia: not over-representedGAHawaii: not over-representedHITexas: not over-representedTXFlorida: not over-representedFL
Same as national3× or more
Location quotient, 2016–2025. Shaded states use the name more than the country does, relative to their own births. Exact figures are in the table below.
States where Harry is over-represented, 2016–2025. The location quotient compares the state's share of the name with the national share.
StateBirthsvs national rate
Massachusetts 144 2.6×
New York 421 2.3×
New Jersey 178 2.2×
Pennsylvania 177 1.6×
Maryland 73 1.4×

Harry in England and Wales

ONS recorded 1,718 births named Harry in 2025, ranking it #19. That is 46% lower than five years earlier.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts below three are suppressed by ONS.

Where the name Harry comes from

Medieval English spoken form of Old French Henri.

Etymology summarised from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0. Wiktionary entry.

Notable people named Harry

Ordered by how many Wikipedia language editions have an article about them — a measure of reach, not of importance.
NameKnown forYearsEditions
Harry S. Truman president of the United States from 1945 to 1953; politician 1884–1972 197
Harry Houdini Hungarian-born American illusionist, escapologist, and stunt performer 1874–1926 96
Harry Kane English association football player 1993 95
Harry Martinson Swedish writer 1904–1978 84
Harry Styles English singer, songwriter and actor 1994 83
Harry Mulisch Dutch writer 1927–2010 75
Harry Belafonte American singer, actor and civil rights activist 1927–2023 75
Harry Maguire English association football player 1993 71
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The sharpest rise. Births under this name jumped from 2,550 in 1911 to 4,648 in 1912 — 1.8 times over in a single year.

Birth records contain the rise and nothing about its cause. This site does not supply one.

People and dates from Wikidata (CC0), limited to those with an English Wikipedia article who are known by this name as their first name.

Names similar to Harry

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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