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Harriette

#8,546 in 2025Girls' name

Home + king, through Harriet

Harriette has been given to 8,740 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #8,546 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1917, with 281 recorded.

Babies named Harriette, 2025

1 in 276,000

Harriette over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harriette: meaning, origin, and history

Home + king, through Harriet

Germanic languages

What Harriette means

Harriette belongs to the name family reached through Harriette → Harriet → Henriette → Henri → Henri → *Haimarīks. Its meaning is “home + king”.

Origin, language, and formation

Harriette is used in English. Its origins include Germanic languages.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Harriet, Henriette, Henri and *Haimarīks.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,740 girls were recorded with the name Harriette between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 281 in 1917; its best national rank was #345 in 1882.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,628 in 2020 to #8,546 in 2025.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Harriette?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,546
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harriette 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 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harriette. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harriettes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harriette was born before 1926 — so the typical Harriette is around 99 today.

Median birth year
1926
About 99 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
1.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,230
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1920s — 24.7% of all recorded uses (2,163).

Is Harriette 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
+5,536
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,082
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
4.3%
Peak was 1917 (281)
Years since peak
108
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#345
1882

Spellings of Harriette

Harriette is not the most common spelling — Harriet is, with 73.4% against Harriette's 7.1%.

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 Harriette is used

Across 1910–2025, Harriette was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 7,143 girls, against 1 in 30,017 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

014 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 7,143
  2. 2Georgia1 in 10,000
  3. 3Illinois1 in 14,286
  4. 4Iowa1 in 16,667
  5. 5New York1 in 16,667
  6. 6Maine1 in 20,000
  7. 7Minnesota1 in 20,000
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 20,000

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

Harriette around the world

Where Harriette 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
    #1,809
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2020–2020
    #397
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2020–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1966–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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

Notable people named Harriette

People whose public names include Harriette, 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.

Harriette in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Harriette. Linked forms have their own page here.

HarriettHariette

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Harriette by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,546
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,082
Best rank ever
#345
1882
Peak year
1917
281 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,740
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Harriette

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

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Names with a curve like Harriette

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

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Sibling names for Harriette

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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