Harsha — boys' name

What the Data Says About Harsha

The Social Security Administration has registered 229 babies named Harsha between 1976 and 2021, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Harsha currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 12 babies received it in a single year. Harsha is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 19 additional births since 2003.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Harsha performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 82 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Harsha shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Harsha in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Harsha in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 229 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.