Hari
Hari was given to 23 boys in 2025, #4,445 among boys’ names; 885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hari by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Hari mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Hari is “a male given name from Sanskrit used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit हरि (hari).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Hari?
#4,445 among boys’ names, 2025
Hari rose from #4,778 in 2015 to #4,445 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 10.4 to 13.5 per million.
45 babies in 2024, the peak
Hari peaked in 2024, when 45 babies were given it (37 boys, #3,237 among boys’ names). The 23 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #4,445 | 13.5 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,237 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 29 | #3,828 | 17.0 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,801 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 19 | #4,985 | 10.9 |
| 2020 | 17 | #5,324 | 9.8 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,855 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,516 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,537 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 30 | #3,621 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,778 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,938 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 27 | #3,789 | 14.3 |
| 2012 | 17 | #5,326 | 9.0 |
| 2011 | 28 | #3,720 | 14.7 |
| 2010 | 19 | #4,905 | 9.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #5,647 | 8.1 |
| 2008 | 26 | #3,969 | 12.7 |
| 2007 | 21 | #4,545 | 10.1 |
| 2006 | 17 | #5,157 | 8.3 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,373 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 35 | #2,905 | 17.6 |
| 2003 | 33 | #2,949 | 16.7 |
| 2002 | 32 | #2,899 | 16.5 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,556 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,820 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,889 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 15 | #4,488 | 7.8 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,756 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 14 | #4,467 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,617 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,240 | 3.6 |
| 1993 | 9 | #5,923 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 5 | #8,910 | 2.5 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,611 | 3.0 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,471 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,275 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,702 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 14 | #3,325 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,479 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,708 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 8 | #4,654 | 4.5 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,361 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,647 | 2.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,663 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 8 | #4,571 | 4.6 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,720 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,786 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 6 | #5,176 | 3.8 |
| 1975 | 5 | #5,788 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,206 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,008 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,361 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Hari a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 885 Americans recorded as Hari, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 23 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Hari: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hari, and how old are they?
An estimated 865 Americans named Hari and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 4,001 people named Hari (756 women and girls, 3,245 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 707 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.7 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 428,216 babies since 1880, Hari is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 23 of their 395 babies (5.8%), the third most given that year.
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 Hari
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 Hari and names like it
- Compare Hari and HarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHari peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hari since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Hari: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Hari.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hari alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.