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Harish

Boys' name

Lord

Harish has been given to 368 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Harish, 2022

1 in 677,000

Harish over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harish: meaning, origin, and history

Lord

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harish means

Harish means “lord”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Harish is used in Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 368 boys were recorded with the name Harish between 1974 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2003; its best national rank was #3,219 in 2003.

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.

How common is Harish?

Harish had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harish 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harish. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harishs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harish was born before 2007 — so the typical Harish is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
368
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.9% of all recorded uses (169).

Is Harish 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (29)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
44.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,219
2003

Spellings of Harish

Harish is not the most common spelling — Harris is, with 28.7% against Harish's 0.64%.

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 Harish is used

Across 1910–2025, Harish was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 766,791 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 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. Harish has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Harish around the world

Where Harish 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
    1996–2022
    #3,049
    in 2022
  • France
    2000–2021
    #5,160
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1998–2021
    #2,792
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2004–2004
    #589
    in 2004

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

Harish by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,219
2003
Peak year
2003
29 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
368
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harish

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

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Sibling names for Harish

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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