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Harmonie vs Harrison

American parents have registered 99,462 Harrisons since 1880, against 2,814 Harmonies. Harrison is still ahead, with 3,080 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Harmonie 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 1978, when Harmonie had 19 and Harrison had 100.

Side by side

  Harmonie Harrison
Total US births 2,81499,462
Most in one year 1383,670
Babies in 2025 723,080
Estimated living today 2,80086,000
Median age today 1213
Peak year 20152016
Best rank 1,580th girls107th boys
Rank in 2025 2,458th116th
First recorded 19741880
Girls / boys 2,814 / 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.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

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

Country Harmonie Harrison
England and Wales 19846,965
France 2,495445
Belgium 1222

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: Harmonie and Harrison.