How Many People Are Named Harriette?

2,132

people named Harriette are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 160,311 people in the US has this name

Based on 8,740 babies named Harriette in Social Security records from 1880 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#6,470

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#3,613

See the top 100

Peak Year

1917

281 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English
Pronunciation: HER-ee-ət, HAR-ee-ət
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of HARRIET.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Harriette in English. Counting Harriette and these spellings together, about 32,325 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

HenrietteHenrikeDrikaHeikeHeintjeHendrikaHendrikjeHendrinaHennieHennyHenriettaInaRikaHarriet

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Harriette in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Harriette alive today is about 72 years old, and 86% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 66 and 83 in 2025.

Under 30 103
4.8%
30 to 59 189
8.9%
60 and over 1,839
86.3%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Harriette first appears in the records in 1880 and was given most often in 1917, to 281 babies. In 2025, 12 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1880 to 2025

🏆 Rank History

Harriette has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #345, in 1882. In 2025 it ranked #8,546.

Girls
Rank in 2025#8,546
Best rank#345 (1882)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#466 in the 1920s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Harriette alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Harriette were born in Georgia than in any other state: about 205 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Harriette was given 3.3 times as often in South Carolina, 3.2 times in Georgia and 2.1 times in Illinois.

Georgia 205
South Carolina 146
New York 121
North Carolina 102
Virginia 57
Illinois 54
Florida 50
Pennsylvania 44
Tennessee 41
Alabama 37
California 37
Ohio 27
Texas 23
Michigan 14
Missouri 9
Massachusetts 8
New Jersey 7
Indiana 4
Kentucky 4
Maryland 4
District of Columbia 3
Oklahoma 3
Minnesota 1
Kansas 1
Iowa 1
Wisconsin 1

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