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Harshi

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Harshi has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2005, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Harshi, 2016

1 in 734,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harshi: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Harshi means

Harshi is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Harshi is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Harshi between 2005 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2005; its best national rank was #17,177 in 2016.

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 Harshi?

Harshi 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 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harshi 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 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harshi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harshis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harshi was born before 2005 — so the typical Harshi is around 20 today.

Median birth year
2005
About 20 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Harshi 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 2005 (5)
Years since peak
20
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#17,177
2016

Spellings of Harshi

Harshi is not the most common spelling — Marsha is, with 86.2% against Harshi's <0.01%.

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.

Harshi around the world

Where Harshi 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
    2012–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2010–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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.

Harshi 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
#17,177
2016
Peak year
2005
5 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Harshi

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

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Sibling names for Harshi

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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