Harriett
Harriett is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 8 births. Its best rank was 156th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 80.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1920585 births
- Best rank
- #156in 1880
- Since 1880
- 21,604people given the name
The story in the numbers
21,604 girls have been named Harriett in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 585 births.
The name has all but left use: 8 births in 2024, against 585 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Harriett | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 938 | |
| 1890s | 1,199 | |
| 1900s | 1,226 | |
| 1910s | 3,839 | |
| 1920s | 4,602 | |
| 1930s | 3,038 | |
| 1940s | 3,064 | |
| 1950s | 1,998 | |
| 1960s | 976 | |
| 1970s | 289 | |
| 1980s | 177 | |
| 1990s | 84 | |
| 2000s | 38 | |
| 2010s | 89 | |
| 2020s | 47 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Harriett was the 270th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1920 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Harriett
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Harrietpeak 1921
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Almedapeak 1921
- Luepeak 1919
- Louellapeak 1932
- Margretpeak 1921
- Anniepeak 1922
- Georgiepeak 1925
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.