Harris is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Harris isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Harris ranks 972. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Harris. In the entire USA, approximately 10,178 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Harris. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Harris annualy. This means that there have been boys named Harris who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Harris have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Harris even more than any other time: in 1889, it holds its present record at rank #293 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Harris was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Harris has never been ranked higher than #293. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,060 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 180 boys named Harris were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Harris were born, there have been 110 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Harris, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 37 states are home to men and boys named Harris. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Harris living in one state or another. If your name is Harris and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Louisiana, which has the most people named Harris relative to the population, you still have to ask 4,178 men and boys their names before you hear Harris as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is not particularly common as a first letter for boys' names: only 2.9% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an H. The most common first letters for boys' names are J and A, while X and U are the least common first letters of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Harris is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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.
This means that if 2.9% of all boys' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course some names that begin with H and are extremely popular, for example Henry, currently the most common boys’ name with H.
If your name is Harris 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 Harris, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Rocket
Igloo
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Harris
Harris
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
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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.
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A
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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. Harris sounds like this:
