Harriett

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Harriett: Recorded since 1976, with a gap of 19 years, it reached #336 in 2019, and it stood at #686 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
32times a registrar ranked it
49years from first to last
#336highest recorded position
9groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Harriett's record

Absent from every published list for 19 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#671
1997	#820
1998	#619
1999	#752
2000	#728
2001	#779
2002	#842
2003	#996
2004	#736
2005	#729
2006	#796
2007	#645
2008	#753
2009	#879
2010	#946
2011	#817
2012	#690
2013	#652
2014	#652
2015	#708
2016	#655
2017	#526
2018	#560
2019	#545
2020	#928
2021	#801
2022	#796
2023	#981
2024	#686

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

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Republic of Ireland in 2 of the 37 years from 1976 to 2012.

In 2019: #336 among girls in Northern Ireland, #545 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1976–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1976
First recorded at #497 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1976 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #686 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Harriett appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, with 29 ranked years and 1,335 births registered; the earliest is Republic of Ireland · Girls, from 1976.

Harriett across 2 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.

Harriett'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
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#497 (1976)	#497 (1976)	#907 (2012)	2 of 37	6 (1976–2012)	3 (1976)
England and Wales · Girls	#671 (1996)	#526 (2017)	#686 (2024)	29 of 29	1,335 (1996–2024)	82 (2017)

Harriett by decade in England and Wales · Girls

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 Harriett in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	133	4 of 10	33
2000s	370	10 of 10	37
2010sbusiest	614	10 of 10	61
2020s	218	5 of 10	44

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 61 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 36, from 74 to 38.

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

Harriett 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 3 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #336 in Northern Ireland in 2019.

Harriett'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	female	#686	55	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#981	35	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#796	45	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#801	45	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#928	38	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#545	74	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#560	74	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#526	82	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#655	64	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#708	56	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#652	61	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#652	62	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#690	60	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#817	45	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#946	36	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#879	38	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#753	46	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#645	54	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#796	38	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#729	41	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#736	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#996	24	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#842	28	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#779	31	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#728	32	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#752	30	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#619	41	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#820	27	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#671	35	High	Verified
2019	Northern Ireland	female	#336	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	female	#907	3	High	Verified
1976	Republic of Ireland	female	#497	3	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

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1976 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #336, first reached in 2019.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 82 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 19 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 43 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.

Harrie · #727, 28y
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Harriette · #397, 29y
Harrington · #3036, 10y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Aleksandrs · #336, 35y
Susie · #336, 30y
Loren · #337, 31y
Rion · #334, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Aoifa · #335, 10y
Rami · #334, 44y
Bronwen · #339, 31y
Eirill · #332, 31y

Harriett was ranked #336 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2019. 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.

Harriett 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 Harriett without appearing here.

Harriett moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2003 they stood at #996 and #909 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2004 that had become #736 and #1715.
Ashley Compare
In 2023 they stood at #981 and #941 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #686 and #1406.
Caroline Compare
In 2023 they stood at #981 and #981 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #686 and #1406.
Christina Compare
In 2023 they stood at #981 and #865 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #686 and #1302.

Moved ahead of Harriett

Fiadh Compare
In 2019 they stood at #545 and #1063 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #928 and #460.
Harper Compare
In 2011 they stood at #817 and #858 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #690 and #284.
Mina Compare
In 2019 they stood at #545 and #574 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #928 and #550.
Maia Compare
In 1996 they stood at #671 and #753 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1997 that had become #820 and #456.

Moved the same way as Harriett

Kristin Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Harriett went from #671 to #981 and Kristin from #1434 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Harriett went from #671 to #981 and Therese from #2096 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Harriett went from #671 to #981 and Tracey from #783 to #5687.
Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Harriett went from #619 to #981 and Josefine from #3848 to #5687.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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 3 regions, from 1976 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #336 in Northern Ireland in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harriett

Harriett at a glance

What stands out in Harriett's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harriett across 2 official records

Harriett by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harriett appears in

Popularity data

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What stands out in Harriett's record

Harriett across 2 official records

Harriett by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Harriett appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Harriett

Harriett and the names beside it

Harriett moved ahead of

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