Harrold
Harrold was last recorded in 1988, when 5 babies were given it; 1,103 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harrold by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Harrold?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #7,705, in 1988; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
46 babies in 1923, the peak
Harrold peaked in 1923, when 46 boys were given it, #1,047 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | #7,705 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 5 | #6,625 | 2.8 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,209 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,001 | 3.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,709 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,081 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 10 | #2,729 | 5.0 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,159 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 9 | #2,981 | 4.2 |
| 1960 | 6 | #3,813 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | 11 | #2,581 | 5.2 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,142 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 8 | #3,115 | 3.7 |
| 1956 | 7 | #3,338 | 3.3 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,854 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 11 | #2,513 | 5.4 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,790 | 4.6 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,760 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #2,423 | 5.8 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,910 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,164 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,629 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,876 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,449 | 14.8 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,310 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #2,726 | 5.9 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,602 | 14.0 |
| 1942 | 18 | #1,701 | 13.0 |
| 1941 | 19 | #1,615 | 15.5 |
| 1940 | 21 | #1,495 | 18.1 |
| 1939 | 20 | #1,509 | 18.1 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,715 | 15.3 |
| 1937 | 25 | #1,355 | 23.4 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,227 | 10.6 |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,307 | 25.9 |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,404 | 23.2 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,425 | 23.2 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,339 | 25.9 |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,246 | 29.8 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,351 | 26.4 |
| 1929 | 27 | #1,396 | 25.1 |
| 1928 | 24 | #1,539 | 21.7 |
| 1927 | 30 | #1,359 | 26.6 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,074 | 38.7 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,514 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 35 | #1,232 | 30.9 |
| 1923 | 46 | #1,047 | 42.0 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,294 | 29.4 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,375 | 27.2 |
| 1920 | 34 | #1,244 | 31.9 |
| 1919 | 40 | #1,090 | 40.8 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,623 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,723 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 22 | #1,526 | 24.7 |
| 1915 | 29 | #1,227 | 34.2 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,204 | 36.7 |
| 1913 | 13 | #1,534 | 25.4 |
| 1912 | 10 | #1,671 | 23.3 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,695 | 25.7 |
| 1906 | 10 | #820 | 75.1 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,286 | 39.0 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,204 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harrold a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harrold has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harrold: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harrold, and how old are they?
An estimated 222 Americans named Harrold and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (20% of everyone recorded); the median is 75 years old and half are between 66 and 82. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 518 people named Harrold (5 women and girls, 513 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 309 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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 Harrold born?
The states with the most babies named Harrold are Texas, Georgia and Pennsylvania, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Georgia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Kentucky | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Harrold is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Harrold is most over-represented in Texas: 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 Harrold with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Harrold?
Harrold is a less common spelling of Harold: SSA has recorded 1,103 Harrold and 554,280 Harold since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 556,194 babies since 1880, Harrold is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 245 babies recorded by SSA was a Harrold (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Harrold
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 Harrold and names like it
- Compare Harrold and HaroldBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHarrold peaked in 1923.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harrold since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Harrold.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Harrold alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with HMost given first.