Harriet is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
Harriet is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,135 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,134 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 73,286 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Harriet. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Harriet is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Harriet for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Harriet is therefore one of the 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Harriet is a very special name that peaked in popularity over 100 years ago in the 19th century, ranking in the top 100 girls' names in our SmartGenius first name statistics: With #72 Harriet has never been more popular than back in 1880.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Harriet was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 217 babies were named Harriet in the USA in 2022, ranking it #1,021 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2004, when it was only ranked #3,974 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 31 girls were named Harriet.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Harriet has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Harriet and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Harriet, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Igloo
Elephant
Tiger
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Harriet
Harriet
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
R
R
I
E
T
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
A
R
R
I
E
T
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Harriet sounds like this:
