Harmony
Harmony was given to 1,123 girls in 2025, #276 among girls’ names; 36,265 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 35,900 Americans named Harmony and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 7 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harmony by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Harmony mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Harmony is “a female given name from Latin.”
Also “a male given name from Latin.”
From harmony.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Harmony?
#276 among girls’ names, 2025
Harmony fell from #184 in 2015 to #276 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 1.0 to 0.70 per 1,000.
1,771 babies in 2015, the peak
Harmony peaked in 2015, when 1,771 girls were given it, #184 among girls’ names. The 1,123 births of 2025 are 63% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,123 | #276 | 0.70 |
| 2024 | 1,209 | #264 | 0.75 |
| 2023 | 1,303 | #231 | 0.81 |
| 2022 | 1,383 | #213 | 0.84 |
| 2021 | 1,512 | #198 | 0.92 |
| 2020 | 1,640 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 2019 | 1,713 | #169 | 1.0 |
| 2018 | 1,690 | #175 | 1.0 |
| 2017 | 1,715 | #178 | 1.0 |
| 2016 | 1,728 | #190 | 1.0 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,771 | #184 | 1.0 |
| 2014 | 1,729 | #192 | 1.0 |
| 2013 | 1,625 | #200 | 0.93 |
| 2012 | 1,629 | #195 | 0.93 |
| 2011 | 1,420 | #223 | 0.81 |
| 2010 | 1,295 | #246 | 0.73 |
| 2009 | 1,299 | #252 | 0.71 |
| 2008 | 1,071 | #313 | 0.57 |
| 2007 | 1,080 | #313 | 0.56 |
| 2006 | 970 | #340 | 0.51 |
| 2005 | 791 | #398 | 0.43 |
| 2004 | 492 | #576 | 0.27 |
| 2003 | 468 | #586 | 0.26 |
| 2002 | 381 | #666 | 0.21 |
| 2001 | 365 | #681 | 0.20 |
| 2000 | 322 | #721 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 268 | #810 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 220 | #939 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 218 | #915 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 176 | #1,050 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 155 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 150 | #1,177 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 135 | #1,265 | 0.07 |
| 1992 | 123 | #1,349 | 0.07 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,425 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 106 | #1,468 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 99 | #1,471 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 130 | #1,174 | 0.07 |
| 1987 | 94 | #1,412 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 107 | #1,264 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 122 | #1,166 | 0.07 |
| 1984 | 161 | #924 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 158 | #939 | 0.09 |
| 1982 | 185 | #844 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 194 | #820 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 215 | #767 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 263 | #664 | 0.16 |
| 1978 | 241 | #664 | 0.16 |
| 1977 | 211 | #730 | 0.14 |
| 1976 | 234 | #656 | 0.16 |
| 1975 | 174 | #797 | 0.12 |
| 1974 | 84 | #1,278 | 0.06 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,144 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,843 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,845 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 11 | #4,858 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,871 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,513 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,928 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,989 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,947 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,606 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,436 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,296 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,863 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,195 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,562 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Harmony a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harmony has been given almost only to girls: 39 boys in 69 years of records.
Girls and boys named Harmony: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harmony, and how old are they?
35,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 36,265 Americans ever recorded as Harmony. The median Harmony alive today is 12 years old; half are between 7 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 23,558 people named Harmony (23,454 women and girls, 104 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 28,203 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 34 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,460 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 12,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 20,000 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Harmony born?
The states with the most babies named Harmony are Texas, California and Georgia, with 26% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 122 | #286 | 0.7× |
| California | 84 | #394 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 82 | #118 | 1.6× |
| Florida | 65 | #292 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 52 | #211 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 43 | #212 | 1.4× |
| New York | 42 | #415 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 41 | #270 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 41 | #265 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 35 | #306 | 0.8× |
Where Harmony is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harmony is most over-represented in Mississippi: since 1915 it was given 1.7 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 girls’ 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 Harmony 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 47,754 babies since 1880, Harmony is the most given (76% of them). In 2025 it was given to 1,123 of their 1,572 babies (71%), again the 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 Harmony
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 Harmony and names like it
- Compare Harmony and HarmoniBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sHarmony peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harmony since 1910.
- Latin namesWiktionary’s origin for Harmony: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Harmony.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harmony alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.