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Harsh

Boys' name

Form of Harsha

Harsh has been given to 665 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 2004, with 46 recorded.

Babies named Harsh, 2024

1 in 557,000

Harsh over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harsh: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Harsha

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harsh means

Harsh is a form of Harsha.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Harsh is used in Hindi, Marathi and Gujarati.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɦəɾʂ/ for Harsh.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Harsh → Harsha. The family’s meaning is “happiness”, recorded in the naming reference for Harsha.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Harsha.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 665 boys were recorded with the name Harsh between 1988 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 46 in 2004; its best national rank was #2,414 in 1997.

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 Harsh?

Harsh had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 287,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harsh 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 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harsh. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harshs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harsh was born before 2003 — so the typical Harsh is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
42.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
665
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Choose a decade

2000s — 42.0% of all recorded uses (279).

Is Harsh 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 2004 (46)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,414
1997

Spellings of Harsh

Harsh is not the most common spelling — Harry is, with 74.0% against Harsh's 0.12%.

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 Harsh is used

Across 1910–2025, Harsh was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 264,043 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4New 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. Harsh has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Harsh around the world

Where Harsh 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
    1996–2024
    #3,255
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1998–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    2009–2011
    #487
    in 2011

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.

Harsh 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
—
Best rank ever
#2,414
1997
Peak year
2004
46 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
665
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harsh

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

HarunHarloHardenHaraldHarisHariHaronHarelHarlynHarmanHarborHarounHartHarukiHarveHardinHaruHershHaroonHarvardHarutoHarvyHarvinDarsh

Sibling names for Harsh

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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