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Hari

#4,445 in 2025Boys' name

Brown, yellow, tawny + monkey, horse, lion

Hari has been given to 885 babies in the U.S. since 1968. In 2025 it ranked #4,445 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 37 recorded.

Babies named Hari, 2025

1 in 144,000

Hari over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
01020304018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Hari: meaning, origin, and history

Brown, yellow, tawny + monkey, horse, lion

Sanskrit

What Hari means

Hari means “brown, yellow, tawny + monkey, horse, lion”.

Origin, language, and formation

Hari is used in English. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Hari comes through Sanskrit हरि.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 871 boys were recorded with the name Hari between 1968 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2024; its best national rank was #2,899 in 2002.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,324 in 2020 to #4,445 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,778 in 2015 to #4,445 in 2025.

In the United States, 14 girls were recorded with the name Hari between 2023 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2024; its best national rank was #11,467 in 2024.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Hari?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 144,000
23 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 74,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,445
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
99,910 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Hari sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 99,910 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Hari. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Hari was born before 2008 — so the typical Hari is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
871
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (240).

Is Hari rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,208
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+879
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+333
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
62.2%
Peak was 2024 (37)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,899
2002

Spellings of Hari

Hari is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 30.5% against Hari's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Hari is used

Across 1910–2025, Hari was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 336,679 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3New Jersey1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Hari has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Hari around the world

Where Hari ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #668
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2018
    #704
    in 2018
  • Ireland
    2013–2013
    #605
    in 2013
  • France
    2001–2025
    #2,466
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2003–2024
    #1,390
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1984–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Hari by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,445
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 879
Best rank ever
#2,899
2002
Peak year
2024
37 that year
First recorded
1968
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
871
Count in 2025
23

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,467
2024
Peak year
2024
8 that year
First recorded
2023
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
14
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Hari

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Hari

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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