Harshita — girls' name
195 babies named Harshita in U.S. Social Security records since 1999, with the highest year being 2008. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
70% of everyone ever named Harshita was born in this single decade.
21 babies were named Harshita in 2008 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Harshita
The Social Security Administration has registered 195 babies named Harshita between 1999 and 2022, spanning 24 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Harshita currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2022. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 21 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Harshita performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 136 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Harshita shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 20 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Harshita in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Harshita 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 195 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.
Harshita at a glance
Last recorded 2022Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Harshita popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2022–1999
- Peak year (2008)
- 21
- Annual births at peak — across 24 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2022.
195 total births across 24 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2008 with 21 births in a single year.
Harshita by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 136 births that decade — 70% of Harshita's all-time total
Harshita decade highlights
- Peak decade 136 births
- Runner-up 40 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Harshita's strongest decade
136 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 70% of all-time use.
Harshita by state
Where Harshita concentrates geographically — total births since 1999
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 20 | 10.3% |
20 of 195 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 10.3% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 10.3% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1999–2022 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.