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Harsha

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Happiness

Harsha has been given to 249 babies in the U.S. since 1976. 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 2008, with 12 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 92% boys, 8% girls all-time.

Babies named Harsha, 2021

1 in 565,000

Harsha over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2021, Harsha went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19762021

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.

Harsha: meaning, origin, and history

Happiness

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harsha means

Harsha means “happiness”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Harsha is used in Kannada, Telugu and Sanskrit.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 230 boys were recorded with the name Harsha between 1976 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2008; its best national rank was #5,179 in 1976.

In the United States, 19 girls were recorded with the name Harsha between 2003 and 2007. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2003; its best national rank was #12,901 in 2003.

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 Harsha?

Harsha had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harsha 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harsha. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harshas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harsha was born before 2006 — so the typical Harsha is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
80.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
230
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2000s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (83).

Is Harsha 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 2008 (12)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,179
1976

Spellings of Harsha

Harsha is not the most common spelling — Marshal is, with 34.1% against Harsha's 1.4%.

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 Harsha is used

Across 1910–2025, Harsha was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,490,386 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

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

Harsha around the world

Where Harsha 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
    2016–2016
    #4,810
    in 2016
  • South Australia
    2002–2008
    #726
    in 2008

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

Harsha 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
#5,179
1976
Peak year
2008
12 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
230
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,901
2003
Peak year
2003
7 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2007
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harsha

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

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Sibling names for Harsha

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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