Harsh

At the 2020 census, 3,051 Americans bore the surname Harsh — 10,072nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 98,000.

By the numbers

People: 3,051
Rank: 10,072nd
How common: 1 in 98,000
Per 100,000: 1.0

Where the name comes from

From the German surname, Americanized from Harsch, from the adjective harsch.

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

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 89.0%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.8%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.8%
Black, not Hispanic 1.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%

Surnames like Harsh

Also a first name

Harsh has been given to 665 American babies as a first name since 1988, peaking in 2004. 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.