Harvard is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Harvard has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Harvard. That means that a boy named Harvard is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Harvard.
Is the name Harvard a dinosaur? We would say: It's classic! Chosen by 21 parents, the name was given most frequently in 1913 – at that time, it ranked #973. It thus experienced its last peak in a world without internet and cell phones, even before the first personal computer was built. (Do you remember? Those were those big boxes that couldn't even begin to do what a simple robot vacuum cleaner can do today). Since Harvard is both classic and fancy at the same time, people didn't always come up with the idea of giving their baby boy this unusual name. So, if your name is Harvard, feel classic and not old-fashioned, because after all, you stand out with your name these days!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Harvard was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you are reading this and you know someone with the name Harvard born in 2022, please get in touch with us. Because we could not find any newborn boys with this name for the said year. Note: The official statistics only include names given at least 5 times in a year. So, if you know a Harvard born in 2022, that seems like a real fluke!
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Harvard, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in . However, we must admit that 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 quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Harvard living in one state or another. (If your name is Harvard and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 2,553,220 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Harvard. So if your name is Harvard, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Harvard already makes you quite special.
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 seven letters, the name Harvard 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.
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 Harvard 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 Harvard, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Violin
Apple
Rocket
Dinosaur
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Harvard
Harvard
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
R
V
A
R
D
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
V
A
R
D
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. Harvard sounds like this:
