Harper-Lee

femaleStatistical record

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

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

Harper-Lee: Recorded every year since 2014, it reached #2,706 in 2017, and it stood at #4,843 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
14times a registrar ranked it
11years from first to last
#2706highest recorded position
2groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2014–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2014	#5691
2015	#4736
2016	#3214
2017	#2706
2018	#4684
2019	#2869
2020	#3117
2021	#4634
2022	#5669
2023	#3218
2024	#4843

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in every year from 2014 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 2014–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2014
First recorded at #5691 among girls in England and Wales in 2014 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2014–2024
Highest recorded position: #2706 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017 (recorded 2014–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #4843 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Harper-Lee appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 2014, and has registered 60 births with the name.

Harper-Lee 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.

Harper-Lee'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 · Girls	#5691 (2014)	#2706 (2017)	#4843 (2024)	11 of 11	60 (2014–2024)	9 (2017)
England and Wales · Boys	#4810 (2016)	#4749 (2018)	#4749 (2018)	3 of 3	9 (2016–2018)	3 (2016)

Harper-Lee 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 2014 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2706 in England and Wales in 2017.

Harper-Lee'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	#4843	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#3218	7	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3117	7	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2869	8	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#4749	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2706	9	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#4810	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#5691	3	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 2014 and 2024, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2,706, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2017.

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.

2decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 2 decades →
11 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
1unbroken stretch — never absent from the recordUnbroken since it first appeared →
#4,843position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
9births registered in its largest year, 2017Under 25 births →

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.

Harper · #2, 26y
Harper-Grace · #1490, 11y
Harper-Leigh · #1007, 13y
Harper-Lily · #834, 11y

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.

Edie-Rose · #2706, 15y
Paisley-Grace · #2706, 10y
Sydney-Rose · #2706, 11y
Yaran · #2706, 11y

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2010 and 2019.

Edie-Rose · #2706, 15y
Paisley-Grace · #2706, 10y
Yaran · #2706, 11y
Elnaz · #2705, 10y

Harper-Lee 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 Harper-Lee without appearing here.

Harper-Lee moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #4684 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #2869 and #5591.
Geraldine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5691 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3214 and #5785.
Kristine Compare
In 2015 they stood at #4736 and #3252 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #3214 and #5785.
Cheryl Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5669 and #5669 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #3218 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Harper-Lee

Freddie Compare
In 2023 they stood at #3218 and #4056 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4843 and #3318.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #1939.
Arlo Compare
In 2019 they stood at #2869 and #3541 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #3117 and #2843.

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.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 2014 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #2706 in England and Wales in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Harper-Lee

Harper-Lee at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Harper-Lee across 2 official records

Harper-Lee appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Harper-Lee and the names beside it

Harper-Lee moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harper-Lee

Harper-Lee at a glance

Harper-Lee across 2 official records

Harper-Lee appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2010s

Harper-Lee and the names beside it

Harper-Lee moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Harper-Lee