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Harrell

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Harrell has been given to 2,635 babies in the U.S. since 1902. 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 1947, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Harrell, 2016

1 in 524,000

Harrell over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harrell: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harrell means

Harrell is a given name.

The naming story behind Harrell

Wikidata records Harrell as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q82951315, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,635 boys were recorded with the name Harrell between 1902 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1947; its best national rank was #898 in 1946.

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 Harrell?

Harrell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 524,000
7 of 3,669,531 births
Among boys only
1 in 271,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
363,362 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harrell 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 2016 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 363,362 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harrell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harrells were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harrell was born before 1944 — so the typical Harrell is around 81 today.

Median birth year
1944
About 81 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
17.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.9%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,033
People you could plausibly meet
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1920s — 17.9% of all recorded uses (471).

Is Harrell 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1947 (56)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#898
1946

Spellings of Harrell

Harrell is not the most common spelling — Darrell is, with 42.2% against Harrell's 0.70%.

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 Harrell is used

Across 1910–2025, Harrell was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 64,135 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2North Carolina1 in 33,333
  3. 3Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  4. 4Texas1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 100,000

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

Notable people named Harrell

People whose public names include Harrell, 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.

Harrell 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
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Best rank ever
#898
1946
Peak year
1947
56 that year
First recorded
1902
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
2,635
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harrell

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

HartwellHartleyHarlowHarlandHardingHarlenHarlemHarlinHarlonMartellHaroonRondellCardellRonnellWindellPernellHardinHarvardHarvellLyndellHarwellLatrellKordellConnell

Names with a curve like Harrell

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

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Sibling names for Harrell

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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