Harrell
Harrell was last recorded in 2016, when 7 babies were given it; 2,635 Americans have been recorded with it between 1902 and 2016 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,070 Americans named Harrell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (41% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 51 and 76.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harrell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harrell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,031, in 2016; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1947, the peak
Harrell peaked in 1947, when 56 boys were given it, #946 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 7 | #10,031 | 3.7 |
| 2014 | 8 | #9,069 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #12,937 | 2.6 |
| 2007 | 5 | #13,031 | 2.4 |
| 2006 | 5 | #12,714 | 2.4 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,188 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,543 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,303 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,279 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,592 | 4.1 |
Every recorded year (98)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #9,239 | 2.5 |
| 1992 | 9 | #5,810 | 4.5 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,885 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 5 | #8,604 | 2.4 |
| 1989 | 10 | #4,950 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,558 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,602 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,604 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,276 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,712 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 17 | #2,712 | 9.5 |
| 1982 | 15 | #3,019 | 8.3 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,818 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 13 | #3,322 | 7.3 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,656 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,316 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 10 | #3,699 | 6.1 |
| 1976 | 20 | #2,274 | 12.7 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,967 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,223 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,916 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 14 | #2,583 | 8.6 |
| 1971 | 13 | #2,733 | 7.4 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,023 | 10.8 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,172 | 8.9 |
| 1968 | 25 | #1,596 | 14.4 |
| 1967 | 20 | #1,780 | 11.5 |
| 1966 | 23 | #1,630 | 12.9 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,640 | 12.4 |
| 1964 | 25 | #1,594 | 12.5 |
| 1963 | 39 | #1,242 | 19.2 |
| 1962 | 30 | #1,438 | 14.5 |
| 1961 | 32 | #1,418 | 15.1 |
| 1960 | 31 | #1,447 | 14.5 |
| 1959 | 37 | #1,285 | 17.3 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,496 | 13.2 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,257 | 18.1 |
| 1956 | 33 | #1,351 | 15.6 |
| 1955 | 44 | #1,119 | 21.4 |
| 1954 | 40 | #1,189 | 19.6 |
| 1953 | 42 | #1,142 | 21.3 |
| 1952 | 51 | #1,004 | 26.2 |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,044 | 25.0 |
| 1950 | 39 | #1,147 | 21.8 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,099 | 23.1 |
| 1948 | 46 | #1,039 | 26.2 |
| 1947 | 56 | #946 | 30.6 |
| 1946 | 54 | #898 | 33.3 |
| 1945 | 48 | #931 | 35.7 |
| 1944 | 40 | #1,046 | 29.3 |
| 1943 | 33 | #1,197 | 23.1 |
| 1942 | 50 | #938 | 36.2 |
| 1941 | 41 | #1,010 | 33.4 |
| 1940 | 50 | #899 | 43.1 |
| 1939 | 44 | #948 | 39.8 |
| 1938 | 45 | #945 | 40.6 |
| 1937 | 44 | #948 | 41.3 |
| 1936 | 42 | #957 | 40.5 |
| 1935 | 39 | #1,029 | 37.5 |
| 1934 | 49 | #903 | 47.5 |
| 1933 | 43 | #971 | 43.4 |
| 1932 | 46 | #973 | 44.1 |
| 1931 | 32 | #1,227 | 30.8 |
| 1930 | 43 | #1,059 | 39.2 |
| 1929 | 47 | #988 | 43.7 |
| 1928 | 54 | #919 | 48.8 |
| 1927 | 41 | #1,118 | 36.4 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,116 | 36.9 |
| 1925 | 50 | #963 | 44.8 |
| 1924 | 53 | #970 | 46.8 |
| 1923 | 49 | #1,002 | 44.7 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,169 | 34.9 |
| 1921 | 54 | #956 | 49.0 |
| 1920 | 44 | #1,058 | 41.3 |
| 1919 | 29 | #1,333 | 29.6 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,221 | 32.6 |
| 1917 | 29 | #1,280 | 31.3 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,188 | 34.8 |
| 1915 | 32 | #1,150 | 37.7 |
| 1914 | 21 | #1,315 | 32.1 |
| 1913 | 16 | #1,341 | 31.2 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,307 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,856 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 8 | #1,251 | 41.2 |
| 1909 | 10 | #979 | 61.0 |
| 1908 | 6 | #1,288 | 38.9 |
| 1907 | 6 | #1,258 | 40.9 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,207 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harrell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 98 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harrell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harrell, and how old are they?
1,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 41% of the 2,635 Americans ever recorded as Harrell. The median Harrell alive today is 66 years old; half are between 51 and 76.
The 2020 Census counted 1,174 people named Harrell (16 women and girls, 1,158 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,284 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 151 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 484 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 238 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 154 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 26 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 15 |
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 Harrell born?
The states with the most babies named Harrell are Texas, North Carolina and Georgia, with 72% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 389 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| North Carolina | 129 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Georgia | 82 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Oklahoma | 64 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Arkansas | 63 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Florida | 32 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 28 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Alabama | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 8 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Harrell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harrell is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 2.5 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 Harrell 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,671 babies since 1880, Harrell is the most given (72% 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 Harrell
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 Harrell and names like it
- Compare Harrell and HarrelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sHarrell peaked in 1947.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harrell since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Harrell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Harrell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.