Harris

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Harris: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Harris: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #9, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
60times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#9highest recorded position
14groupings it qualifies for
1name it appears alongside

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 1997

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3824

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #9 among boys in Scotland, #338 among boys in England and Wales, #339 among boys in Northern Ireland, #582 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #454 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded2024–2024
Highest recorded position: #9 among boys in Scotland, in 2024 (recorded 2024–2024).
Scotland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Harris appears in 4 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 3,545 births with the name.

Harris across 4 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Harris's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#454 (1996)	#264 (2005)	#338 (2024)	29 of 29	3,545 (1996–2024)	186 (2015)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#436 (2023)	#829 (2025)	15 of 21	66 (2005–2025)	8 (2023)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#315 (2007)	#201 (2015)	#339 (2024)	13 of 18	71 (2007–2024)	11 (2015)
Scotland · Boys	#9 (2024)	#9 (2024)	#9 (2024)	1 of 1	243 (2024–2024)	243 (2024)

Harris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Harris in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	208	4 of 10	52
2000s	1,088	10 of 10	109
2010sbusiest	1,598	10 of 10	160
2020s	651	5 of 10	130

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 160 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2007 and 2008, when recorded births rose by 44, from 100 to 144.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Harris appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #9 in Scotland in 2024.

Harris's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#338	129	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#336	127	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#385	110	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#319	145	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#330	140	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#290	167	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#287	173	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#291	172	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#299	161	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#273	186	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#288	160	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#287	159	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#290	158	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#331	133	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#333	129	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#312	131	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#293	144	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#366	100	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#274	133	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#264	125	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#269	121	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#289	103	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#317	84	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#314	86	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#378	61	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#396	57	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#386	58	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3824	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#413	51	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#454	42	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#339	4	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	male	#211	10	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#213	9	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	male	#312	5	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	male	#279	6	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	male	#358	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	male	#201	11	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2009	Northern Ireland	male	#390	3	High	Verified
2008	Northern Ireland	male	#378	3	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	male	#315	4	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#582	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#436	8	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#572	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#495	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#713	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#448	7	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#698	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#9	243	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#9	243	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #9, first reached in 2024.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 243 births, registered in Scotland in 2024.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2005, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Harrison-Lee · #2076, 13y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Finlay · #11, 30y
Eabha · #13, 33y
Albie · #19, 30y
Teddy · #20, 30y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Archie · #9, 30y
Rosie · #9, 33y
Arlo · #10, 27y
Freddie · #10, 30y

Harris was ranked #9 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Harris and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Harris without appearing here.

Harris moved ahead of

Marius Compare
In 2022 they stood at #572 and #509 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #436 and #770.
Markus Compare
In 2022 they stood at #572 and #454 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2023 that had become #436 and #770.
Glenn Compare
In 1998 they stood at #386 and #369 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #396 and #586.
Courtney Compare
In 1997 they stood at #413 and #399 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #386 and #554.

Moved ahead of Harris

Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #413 and #484 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #386 and #182.
Jude Compare
In 1998 they stood at #386 and #415 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #396 and #261.
Levi Compare
In 2007 they stood at #315 and #357 in Northern Ireland · Boys; by 2008 that had become #378 and #249.
Filip Compare
In 2006 they stood at #274 and #443 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2007 that had become #366 and #253.

Moved the opposite way to Harris

Alfie Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 while Alfie went from #254 to #36.
Archie Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 while Archie went from #302 to #46.
Arthur Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 while Arthur went from #224 to #57.
Caleb Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 while Caleb went from #205 to #108.

Moved the same way as Harris

Aaron Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 and Aaron from #9 to #71.
Adam Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 and Adam from #3 to #20.
Adrian Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 and Adrian from #196 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 2005 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Harris went from #518 to #829 and Alan from #72 to #232.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #9 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harris

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Popularity journey

Harris across 4 official records

Harris by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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Harris across 4 official records

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