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Harmoney vs Harrison

American parents have registered 99,462 Harrisons since 1880, against 607 Harmoneys. Harrison is still ahead, with 3,080 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Harmoney against Harrison, 1880 to 2025 0 1k 2k 3k 4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Harmoney Harrison

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Harrison has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1981, when Harmoney had 5 and Harrison had 139.

Side by side

  Harmoney Harrison
Total US births 60799,462
Most in one year 443,670
Babies in 2025 93,080
Estimated living today 60086,000
Median age today 1313
Peak year 20092016
Best rank 3,619th girls107th boys
Rank in 2025 10,107th116th
First recorded 19811880
Girls / boys 607 / 0324 / 99,138

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Harmoney Harrison
England and Wales 346,965

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Harmoney and Harrison.