Harry

Harry is the 3,964th most common surname in the United States, shared by 8,673 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 34,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,673
Rank: 3,964th
How common: 1 in 34,500
Per 100,000: 2.9

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Medieval English spoken form of Old French Henri.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Harry described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 54.5%
Black, not Hispanic 28.9%
Hispanic or Latino 5.0%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 4.6%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 2.8%

Notable people called Harry

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex (born 1984)younger son of Charles III of the United Kingdom and Diana, Princess of Wales
Debbie Harry (born 1945)American singer, songwriter and actress, frontwoman of Blondie
Myriam Harry (1869–1958)pen name of Maria Rosette Shapira (April 1869 (some sources say 1875) – March 10, 1958), a French journalist and writer
Jackée Harry (born 1956)American actress

People named Harry with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Harry

Also a first name

Harry has been given to 425,883 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1918. 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.