Harpal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Harpal has been given to 13 babies in the U.S. since 1989. 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 1989, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Harpal, 1991
1 in 779,000
Harpal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Harpal?
Harpal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1991, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1991
- 1 in 779,000
- 5 of 3,892,928 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 404,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1991
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 539,676 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Harpal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1991 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 539,676 children born in 1991 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harpal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Harpals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Harpal was born before 1989 — so the typical Harpal is around 36 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 61.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 13
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 61.5% of all recorded uses (8).
Is Harpal 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 1989 (8)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Harpal
Harpal is not the most common spelling — Harlan is, with 72.6% against Harpal's 0.04%.
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 Harpal is used
Across 1910–2025, Harpal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,905,450 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Harpal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Harpal around the world
Where Harpal 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 & Wales1998–2004#3,009in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Harpal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Harpal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Harpal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.