Harjot — boys' name
252 babies named Harjot in U.S. Social Security records since 1992, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
45% of everyone ever named Harjot was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Harjot in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Harjot
The Social Security Administration has registered 252 babies named Harjot between 1992 and 2018, spanning 27 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Harjot currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Harjot is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 82 additional births since 1990.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Harjot performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 113 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Harjot shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 109 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Harjot in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Harjot in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 252 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Harjot at a glance
Last recorded 2018Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Harjot popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2018–1992
- Peak year (1997)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 27 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2018.
252 total births across 27 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 14 births in a single year.
Harjot popularity over time — girls
82 total births recorded since 1990 (Harjot as girls' name)
Unisex use is substantial
The girls' variant of Harjot accounts for 25% of total recorded use across both genders.
Harjot by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 113 births that decade — 45% of Harjot's all-time total
Harjot decade highlights
- Peak decade 113 births
- Runner-up 81 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Harjot's strongest decade
113 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 45% of all-time use.
Harjot by state
Where Harjot concentrates geographically — total births since 1992
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 109 | 43.3% |
109 of 252 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 43.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 43.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a strong regional concentration for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1992–2018 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.