Harman
Harman was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,485 among boys’ names; 1,112 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harman?
#8,485 among boys’ names, 2025
Harman fell from #6,455 in 2015 to #8,485 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 6.8 to 5.3 per million.
37 babies in 2008, the peak
Harman peaked in 2008, when 37 babies were given it (32 boys, #3,444 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #8,485 | 5.3 |
| 2024 | 6 | #11,419 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | 10 | #7,909 | 5.8 |
| 2022 | 5 | #13,027 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,403 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,295 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,438 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,797 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 22 | #4,514 | 11.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #7,791 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #6,455 | 6.8 |
| 2014 | 20 | #4,753 | 10.4 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,206 | 5.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,760 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 13 | #6,362 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,413 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 29 | #3,667 | 14.6 |
| 2008 | 32 | #3,444 | 15.7 |
| 2007 | 27 | #3,822 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,713 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,269 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,911 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 23 | #3,765 | 11.6 |
| 2002 | 22 | #3,838 | 11.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #5,475 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,874 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 28 | #2,960 | 14.6 |
| 1998 | 12 | #5,255 | 6.3 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,647 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 11 | #5,309 | 5.8 |
| 1995 | 17 | #3,747 | 8.9 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,618 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,495 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,939 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 5 | #8,676 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,688 | 3.4 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,360 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,717 | 3.1 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,646 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,363 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,180 | 2.8 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,796 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #4,234 | 2.3 |
| 1958 | 5 | #4,181 | 2.4 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,902 | 4.2 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,665 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,789 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 5 | #3,956 | 2.6 |
| 1951 | 5 | #3,921 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #3,896 | 2.8 |
| 1948 | 8 | #2,872 | 4.6 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,755 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #3,318 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 9 | #2,632 | 6.3 |
| 1942 | 9 | #2,595 | 6.5 |
| 1940 | 7 | #2,982 | 6.0 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,521 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,252 | 9.9 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,752 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 9 | #2,611 | 8.6 |
| 1934 | 15 | #1,886 | 14.5 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,123 | 7.1 |
| 1932 | 15 | #1,953 | 14.4 |
| 1931 | 8 | #2,953 | 7.7 |
| 1930 | 10 | #2,668 | 9.1 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,136 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 15 | #2,092 | 13.5 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,604 | 9.8 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,021 | 14.4 |
| 1925 | 11 | #2,659 | 9.9 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,533 | 10.6 |
| 1923 | 18 | #1,901 | 16.4 |
| 1922 | 11 | #2,691 | 10.1 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,877 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 14 | #2,267 | 13.2 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,227 | 8.2 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,316 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,854 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,317 | 7.9 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,106 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,027 | 16.8 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,861 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,464 | 27.9 |
| 1911 | 7 | #1,451 | 31.0 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,113 | 47.1 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,105 | 44.5 |
| 1887 | 5 | #990 | 49.3 |
| 1883 | 7 | #761 | 66.9 |
| 1880 | 7 | #775 | 63.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,112 Americans recorded as Harman, 6% are girls and 94% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 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 Harman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harman, and how old are they?
An estimated 707 Americans named Harman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,106 people named Harman (205 women and girls, 901 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 699 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 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).
Where are babies named Harman born?
The states with the most babies named Harman are California, New York and Virginia, with 98% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 190 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| New York | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| West Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Harman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harman is most over-represented in California: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Harman with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 7,754 babies since 1880, Harman is the second most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 29 babies (31%), again the second 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 Harman
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Elihu | 1,236 |
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 Harman and names like it
- Compare Harman and HarmonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sHarman peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harman since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Harman.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Harman alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.