Harrel
Harrel was last recorded in 1979, when 7 babies were given it; 764 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harrel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harrel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #5,032, in 1979; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1922, the peak
Harrel peaked in 1922, when 24 boys were given it, #1,564 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 7 | #5,032 | 4.1 |
| 1976 | 5 | #5,939 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,208 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,000 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,128 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,364 | 2.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #4,205 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 5 | #4,277 | 2.5 |
| 1963 | 12 | #2,464 | 5.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,797 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 7 | #3,474 | 3.3 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,123 | 3.7 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,909 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,724 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 8 | #3,059 | 3.8 |
| 1955 | 7 | #3,310 | 3.4 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,245 | 6.4 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,012 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 13 | #2,197 | 6.7 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,422 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 13 | #2,143 | 7.3 |
| 1949 | 16 | #1,896 | 9.0 |
| 1948 | 20 | #1,676 | 11.4 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,299 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,914 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,176 | 8.2 |
| 1944 | 16 | #1,771 | 11.7 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,795 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 17 | #1,764 | 12.3 |
| 1941 | 9 | #2,554 | 7.3 |
| 1940 | 16 | #1,760 | 13.8 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,475 | 19.0 |
| 1938 | 23 | #1,416 | 20.7 |
| 1937 | 22 | #1,468 | 20.6 |
| 1936 | 16 | #1,753 | 15.4 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,076 | 12.5 |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,478 | 21.3 |
| 1933 | 21 | #1,517 | 21.2 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,386 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,965 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,780 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,697 | 18.6 |
| 1928 | 21 | #1,668 | 19.0 |
| 1927 | 19 | #1,833 | 16.9 |
| 1926 | 13 | #2,348 | 11.7 |
| 1925 | 23 | #1,605 | 20.6 |
| 1924 | 17 | #1,995 | 15.0 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,784 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 24 | #1,564 | 22.1 |
| 1921 | 20 | #1,795 | 18.2 |
| 1920 | 18 | #1,919 | 16.9 |
| 1919 | 9 | #2,971 | 9.2 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,607 | 10.9 |
| 1917 | 16 | #1,932 | 17.3 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,199 | 14.6 |
| 1915 | 8 | #2,933 | 9.4 |
| 1914 | 11 | #2,028 | 16.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harrel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harrel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harrel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harrel, and how old are they?
An estimated 213 Americans named Harrel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 66 and 81. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 320 people named Harrel (5 women and girls, 315 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 285 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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 4,355 babies since 1880, Harrel is the second most given (18% of them).
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 Harrel
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 Harrel and names like it
- Compare Harrel and HarrellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHarrel peaked in 1922.
- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harrel since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Harrel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Harrel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.