Harel
Harel was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,348 among boys’ names; 200 Americans have been recorded with it since 1930 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harel?
#7,348 among boys’ names, 2025
Harel rose from #9,035 in 2015 to #7,348 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 4.2 to 6.4 per million.
14 babies in 2005, the peak
Harel peaked in 2005, when 14 boys were given it, #5,672 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,348 | 6.4 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,329 | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,402 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,089 | 3.5 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,256 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #8,394 | 5.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #12,959 | 2.7 |
| 2016 | 11 | #7,309 | 5.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #9,035 | 4.2 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,214 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 10 | #7,715 | 5.3 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,395 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 6 | #11,331 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,361 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 8 | #9,285 | 4.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #9,282 | 3.9 |
| 2007 | 11 | #7,269 | 5.3 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,609 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,672 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #8,404 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,904 | 4.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #9,798 | 2.7 |
| 1994 | 5 | #9,334 | 2.6 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,233 | 4.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harel, and how old are they?
An estimated 193 Americans named Harel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 275 people named Harel (19 women and girls, 256 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 164 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
How common is the spelling Harel?
Harel is a less common spelling of Harrell: SSA has recorded 200 Harel and 2,635 Harrell since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 4,355 babies since 1880, Harel is the fourth most given (4.6% of them).
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 Harel
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 Harel and names like it
- Compare Harel and HarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHarel peaked in 2005.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harel since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Harel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Harel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.