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Harpreet

UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Pleasure, joy, love

Harpreet has been given to 503 babies in the U.S. since 1979. 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 1994, with 18 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 50% girls, 50% boys all-time.

Babies named Harpreet, 2012

1 in 732,000

Harpreet over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Harpreet over time

In 2012, Harpreet went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19792012

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Harpreet: meaning, origin, and history

Pleasure, joy, love

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harpreet means

Harpreet means “pleasure, joy, love”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Harpreet is used in Indian (Sikh).

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 254 girls were recorded with the name Harpreet between 1979 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 18 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,319 in 1994.

In the United States, 249 boys were recorded with the name Harpreet between 1981 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1991; its best national rank was #3,037 in 1991.

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 Harpreet?

Harpreet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,051 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harpreet sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 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 507,051 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harpreet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harpreets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harpreet was born before 1994 — so the typical Harpreet is around 31 today.

Median birth year
1994
About 31 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
78.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
254
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.7% of all recorded uses (111).

Is Harpreet 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 1994 (18)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,319
1994

Spellings of Harpreet

Harpreet is not the most common spelling — Harriet is, with 99.7% against Harpreet's 0.28%.

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 Harpreet is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Harpreet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 261,644 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Harpreet has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Harpreet is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Harpreet was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 262,876 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Harpreet around the world

Where Harpreet 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2004
    #2,405
    in 2004
  • South Australia
    1996–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Harpreet by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,319
1994
Peak year
1994
18 that year
First recorded
1979
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
254
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,037
1991
Peak year
1991
21 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
249
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harpreet

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

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Sibling names for Harpreet

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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