Harald
Harald is a boy's name that peaked in 1925, when it was the 1,534th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 5,861st. About 350 Haralds are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 62.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Harald
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 811
- Estimated living today
- 350
- Median age today
- 62
- Peak year
- 1925
- Best rank
- 1,534th
- Rank in 2025
- 5,861st
- First recorded
- 1913
How old the living Haralds are
born that year still alive today
Of the 811 babies given the name since 1913, about 350 are alive — 43 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1963 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Haralds
- Harald V of Norway (born 1937)King of Norway
- Harald zur Hausen (1936–2023)German virologist and professor emeritus
- Harald III of Norway (1015–1066)King of Norway from 1046 to 1066
- Harald Bluetooth (911–986)King of Denmark and Norway
- Harald Fairhair (851–933)King of Norway
- Harald II of Denmark (989–1018)King of Denmark
- Harald Bohr (1887–1951)Danish mathematician and footballer
- Harald Greycloak (935–970)King of Norway
People named Harald with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Harald is most common
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1925
The most popular boys’ names the year Harald peaked:
Harald elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Harald | 12,332 | 8th |
| Austria boys | Harald | 2,233 | 26th |
| France boys | Harald | 375 | 2,585th |
| England and Wales boys | Harald | 32 | 3,254th |
| Belgium boys | Harald | 28 | 1,038th |
| Poland boys | Harald | 2 birth registrations | 745th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Harald among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Harald | 1,528 | 2,307 |
| Finland boys | Harald | 170 | 1,264 |
| the Netherlands girls | Harald | — | 14 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,264 who carry it, 170 go by it.
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Harald lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 199 men called Harald were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Harald | 25 | 0.047 | 1,690 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Harald | 33 | 0.033 | 1,834 |
| Palmas, Las | Harald | 15 | 0.026 | 2,730 |
| Balears, Illes | Harald | 16 | 0.026 | 2,142 |
| Málaga | Harald | 21 | 0.024 | 1,905 |
| Girona | Harald | 5 | 0.012 | 3,502 |
Listed in 6 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 46 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Harald against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.