Harman

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Harman: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #947 in 2012, and it stood at #2,088 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
43times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#947highest recorded position
10groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#3409
2003	#4373
2004	#3725
2005	#4798
2006	#3548
2009	#5556
2010	#2235
2011	#4049
2012	#4838
2013	#3536
2014	#4684
2015	#4736
2016	#5785
2018	#4684

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 boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1458 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 recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #947 among boys in England and Wales, in 2012 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #2088 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Harman appears in 2 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 447 births with the name.

Harman 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.

Harman'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	#1458 (1996)	#947 (2012)	#2088 (2024)	29 of 29	447 (1996–2024)	31 (2012)
England and Wales · Girls	#3409 (2002)	#2235 (2010)	#4684 (2018)	14 of 17	63 (2002–2018)	11 (2010)

Harman 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 Harman in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	27	4 of 10	7
2000s	138	10 of 10	14
2010sbusiest	230	10 of 10	23
2020s	52	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 23 births a year.

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

Harman appears in

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

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #947 in England and Wales in 2012.

Harman'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	#2088	11	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2813	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#2755	7	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1860	12	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1548	15	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1587	15	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1683	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1339	19	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1319	20	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#996	29	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1178	22	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3536	6	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1001	28	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#947	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#976	28	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2235	11	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1067	24	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1666	12	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#3548	5	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1127	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#4798	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1047	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1878	8	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2005	6	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1202	12	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1664	7	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1642	7	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2022	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1458	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #947, first reached in 2012.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 31 births, registered in England and Wales in 2012.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

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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Harmeet · #1821, 17y
Harmoni · #2509, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, 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.

Iolo · #947, 29y
Muneeb · #947, 29y
Hakim · #948, 29y
Abdulaziz · #949, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

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

Iolo · #947, 29y
Muneeb · #947, 29y
Hakim · #948, 29y
Abdulaziz · #949, 29y

Harman was ranked #947 in England and Wales · Boys in 2012. 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.

Harman 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 Harman without appearing here.

Harman moved ahead of

Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3548 and #2509 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2235 and #5707.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #5119.
Grant Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #2813 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #4270.
Keith Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2813 and #2325 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #2088 and #3688.

Moved ahead of Harman

Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #3536 and #4739 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Cheryl Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3409 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #1628.
Dylan Compare
In 2002 they stood at #3409 and #4137 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2003 that had become #4373 and #2191.
Isak Compare
In 2022 they stood at #2755 and #3449 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #2813 and #1461.

Moved the opposite way to Harman

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Harman

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Harman went from #1458 to #2088 and Alex from #43 to #171.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #947 in England and Wales in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harman

Harman at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harman across 2 official records

Harman by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Harman appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Harman

Harman and the names beside it

Harman moved ahead of

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Harman at a glance

Harman across 2 official records

Harman by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Harman appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Harman

Harman and the names beside it

Harman moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harman

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