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Harmon

#5,952 in 2025Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Harmon has been given to 6,642 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #5,952 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1921, with 169 recorded.

Babies named Harmon, 2025

1 in 221,000

Harmon over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harmon: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

surname transfer

What Harmon means

Harmon is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Harmon is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈhɑɹ.mən/ and /ˈhɑː.mən/ for Harmon.

The naming story behind Harmon

Harmon is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,607 boys were recorded with the name Harmon between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 169 in 1921; its best national rank was #337 in 1890.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,325 in 2020 to #5,952 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,944 in 2015 to #5,952 in 2025.

In the United States, 35 girls were recorded with the name Harmon between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2021; its best national rank was #4,611 in 1931.

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 Harmon?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,952
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harmon 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harmon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harmons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harmon was born before 1934 — so the typical Harmon is around 91 today.

Median birth year
1934
About 91 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
19.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,972
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Choose a decade

1920s — 19.4% of all recorded uses (1,280).

Is Harmon 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
−439
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−627
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,008
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.79×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.9%
Peak was 1921 (169)
Years since peak
104
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#337
1890

Spellings of Harmon

Harmon is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 43.7% against Harmon's 0.47%.

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 Harmon is used

Across 1910–2025, Harmon was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 10,000 boys, against 1 in 57,652 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

010 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 10,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 11,111
  3. 3Alabama1 in 16,667
  4. 4Arkansas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Georgia1 in 16,667
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 20,000
  7. 7Kentucky1 in 25,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 33,333

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. Harmon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Harmon around the world

Where Harmon 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.

  • Canada
    1999–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1992–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Harmon

People whose public names include Harmon, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Harmon by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,952
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 627
Best rank ever
#337
1890
Peak year
1921
169 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,607
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,740
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#4,611
1931
Peak year
2021
9 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
35
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Harmon

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

HarperHarlemHarlenHardyHarlandHarlowHarrisHarlinHarlonHarlanShimonRaymonHaroonWaymonHardinHarleyHarmanHarisHaraldHardenHartleyEamonAmmonArmon

Names with a curve like Harmon

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Harmon, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArlieOlenWaltonDewittGranvilleBurlLymanRupertRollinVerneEldenOdis

Sibling names for Harmon

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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