Harbor
Harbor is given to both girls and boys: 56 girls and 29 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,971 among girls’ names and #3,791 among boys’, #3,945 among all names counting both); 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Harbor and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 8 years old and half are between 4 and 11.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harbor by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harbor?
#2,971 among girls’ names, 2025
Harbor fell from #2,822 in 2015 to #2,971 in 2025 among girls’ names, although its share of girls born rose from 34.7 to 34.8 per million.
120 babies in 2018, the peak
Harbor peaked in 2018, when 120 babies were given it (81 girls, #2,258 among girls’ names). The 85 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 71% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,971 | 29 | #3,791 |
| 2024 | 45 | #3,477 | 29 | #3,831 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,568 | 24 | #4,381 |
| 2022 | 75 | #2,432 | 25 | #4,213 |
| 2021 | 81 | #2,275 | 37 | #3,206 |
| 2020 | 51 | #3,110 | 24 | #4,189 |
| 2019 | 50 | #3,192 | 32 | #3,516 |
| 2018 | 81 | #2,258 | 39 | #3,015 |
| 2017 | 53 | #3,068 | 28 | #3,815 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,627 | 27 | #3,918 |
Every recorded year (19)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 62 | #2,822 | 24 | #4,208 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,740 | 27 | #3,829 |
| 2013 | 37 | #4,032 | 15 | #5,755 |
| 2012 | 22 | #5,976 | 16 | #5,563 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,812 | 14 | #6,045 |
| 2010 | 8 | #12,715 | under 5 | |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,870 | 11 | #7,375 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,266 | 10 | #7,888 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,808 | 7 | #9,935 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Harbor a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,258 Americans recorded as Harbor, 67% are girls and 33% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Harbor: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harbor, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,258 Americans ever recorded as Harbor. The median Harbor alive today is 8 years old; half are between 4 and 11.
The 2020 Census counted 691 people named Harbor (433 women and girls, 258 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 727 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 129 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,400 babies since 1880, Harbor is the most given (90% of them). In 2025 it was given to 85 of their 94 babies (90%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Harbor
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Harbor and names like it
- Compare Harbor and HarbourBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHarbor peaked in 2018.
- Florida’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harbor since 1910.
- The top names of 2018The year the most babies were named Harbor.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harbor alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.