Harmon
70,550 people in the United States were counted with the surname Harmon in the 2020 census, making it the 459th most common in the country. That is about one person in 4,237.
By the numbers
- People
- 70,550
- Rank
- 459th
- How common
- 1 in 4,237
- Per 100,000
- 23.6
Where the name comes from
As an English surname, by way of Norman/Anglo-Norman/Middle English/Old French from Proto-West Germanic *hari (“army”) + *mann (“man”), similar to Herman. Also Americanized from German variants such as Harmann, Hermann. Compare Harman.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Harmon described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Harmon
- Mark Harmon (born 1951)American actor
- Angie Harmon (born 1972)American actress
- Richard Harmon (born 1991)Canadian actor
- Dan Harmon (born 1973)American screenwriter
- Judson Harmon (1846–1927)American judge
- Jessica Harmon (born 1985)Canadian actress and director
- Pat Harmon (1886–1958)American actor
- Winsor Harmon (born 1963)American actor
People named Harmon with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Harmon
Also a first name
Harmon has been given to 6,642 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1921. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.