Boys' name · since 2015
Harker
26 babies named Harker in U.S. Social Security records since 2015, with the highest year being 2024. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #26,935 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 26
- born since 2015
- 2010s
- peak decade
26 boys have been named Harker since 2015, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Harker has 26 recorded births among boys since 2015, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2015 to 2024.
- #26,935 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 26 born since 2015
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Harker ranks #26,935 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 26 born since 2015, peaking in the 2010s.
- #26,935 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 26
- born since 2015
- 2010s
- peak decade
Harker's 26 recorded births place it above 40.35% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Harker's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Harker's full recorded timeline at 2019, 62% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 38% in the earlier half -- usage has skewed toward the present, not a one-decade spike. Its quietest year on record was 2015, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2024 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Harker popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2015–2024
- Peak year (2024)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Harker by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (15 births, 58% of the file).
2010s was Harker's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Harker births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
15 births
- 2020s
2020s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 15 births (58% of all-time use).
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- Harker's usage has stayed within range of its 2010s decade-level peak (15 total births) through the 2020s (11) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Harker: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2024)
Similar record span (~9 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2015–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Harker draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.