Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys
Origin: EnglishIn Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Harrison yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Harrison's best rank came in 1888, at 52. Benjamin Harrison won the presidency that November. Its highest birth count came 128 years later, in 2016, at 3,662 — one of the widest gaps between rank peak and count peak anywhere on this site, and evidence that the name has had two entirely separate lives. The current position is 2,958 births at rank 121, down only 8% over ten years, so the second wave is flattening rather than collapsing. Harrison Ford, born 1942, is the dominant modern association by a distance. Prince Archie, born 2019, appears through his second name, and Edward Norton through his middle. With 96,366 births spread across every decade since 1880, this is a name that has never been rare and never been dominant.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 65 | #190 |
| 1881 | 61 | #189 |
| 1882 | 76 | #178 |
| 1883 | 61 | #194 |
| 1884 | 63 | #207 |
| 1885 | 45 | #247 |
| 1886 | 77 | #178 |
| 1887 | 99 | #130 |
| 1888 | 400 | #52 |
| 1889 | 288 | #68 |
| 1890 | 156 | #107 |
| 1891 | 106 | #130 |
| 1892 | 158 | #111 |
| 1893 | 120 | #125 |
| 1894 | 85 | #178 |
| 1895 | 81 | #189 |
| 1896 | 79 | #200 |
| 1897 | 69 | #205 |
| 1898 | 83 | #187 |
| 1899 | 54 | #227 |
| 1900 | 69 | #245 |
| 1901 | 44 | #260 |
| 1902 | 53 | #255 |
| 1903 | 47 | #271 |
| 1904 | 46 | #281 |
| 1905 | 56 | #265 |
| 1906 | 44 | #313 |
| 1907 | 55 | #285 |
| 1908 | 59 | #284 |
| 1909 | 57 | #305 |
| 1910 | 95 | #247 |
| 1911 | 82 | #292 |
| 1912 | 170 | #270 |
| 1913 | 197 | #280 |
| 1914 | 262 | #270 |
| 1915 | 313 | #279 |
| 1916 | 298 | #301 |
| 1917 | 320 | #292 |
| 1918 | 372 | #276 |
| 1919 | 322 | #308 |
| 1920 | 407 | #277 |
| 1921 | 349 | #310 |
| 1922 | 374 | #292 |
| 1923 | 361 | #294 |
| 1924 | 333 | #316 |
| 1925 | 349 | #304 |
| 1926 | 302 | #334 |
| 1927 | 293 | #335 |
| 1928 | 274 | #345 |
| 1929 | 223 | #388 |
| 1930 | 241 | #368 |
| 1931 | 226 | #373 |
| 1932 | 251 | #349 |
| 1933 | 233 | #353 |
| 1934 | 203 | #384 |
| 1935 | 198 | #386 |
| 1936 | 183 | #405 |
| 1937 | 211 | #381 |
| 1938 | 216 | #383 |
| 1939 | 203 | #400 |
| 1940 | 178 | #434 |
| 1941 | 177 | #437 |
| 1942 | 211 | #422 |
| 1943 | 233 | #405 |
| 1944 | 179 | #454 |
| 1945 | 226 | #398 |
| 1946 | 196 | #452 |
| 1947 | 263 | #421 |
| 1948 | 240 | #432 |
| 1949 | 232 | #439 |
| 1950 | 216 | #448 |
| 1951 | 218 | #460 |
| 1952 | 229 | #465 |
| 1953 | 219 | #472 |
| 1954 | 205 | #506 |
| 1955 | 192 | #530 |
| 1956 | 187 | #555 |
| 1957 | 204 | #543 |
| 1958 | 176 | #584 |
| 1959 | 191 | #566 |
| 1960 | 175 | #591 |
| 1961 | 140 | #661 |
| 1962 | 168 | #599 |
| 1963 | 158 | #622 |
| 1964 | 132 | #671 |
| 1965 | 117 | #690 |
| 1966 | 129 | #654 |
| 1967 | 133 | #648 |
| 1968 | 111 | #713 |
| 1969 | 118 | #719 |
| 1970 | 120 | #750 |
| 1971 | 99 | #815 |
| 1972 | 114 | #742 |
| 1973 | 117 | #742 |
| 1974 | 107 | #778 |
| 1975 | 112 | #785 |
| 1976 | 102 | #829 |
| 1977 | 78 | #971 |
| 1978 | 100 | #860 |
| 1979 | 105 | #846 |
| 1980 | 135 | #757 |
| 1981 | 139 | #736 |
| 1982 | 201 | #603 |
| 1983 | 227 | #559 |
| 1984 | 221 | #572 |
| 1985 | 415 | #419 |
| 1986 | 464 | #393 |
| 1987 | 592 | #341 |
| 1988 | 694 | #314 |
| 1989 | 883 | #283 |
| 1990 | 928 | #280 |
| 1991 | 982 | #271 |
| 1992 | 1,019 | #282 |
| 1993 | 1,031 | #279 |
| 1994 | 1,331 | #218 |
| 1995 | 1,362 | #217 |
| 1996 | 1,479 | #209 |
| 1997 | 1,824 | #181 |
| 1998 | 1,903 | #174 |
| 1999 | 1,925 | #182 |
| 2000 | 1,984 | #184 |
| 2001 | 1,798 | #203 |
| 2002 | 1,866 | #199 |
| 2003 | 1,697 | #212 |
| 2004 | 1,729 | #209 |
| 2005 | 1,717 | #211 |
| 2006 | 1,560 | #231 |
| 2007 | 1,654 | #225 |
| 2008 | 1,735 | #219 |
| 2009 | 1,465 | #241 |
| 2010 | 1,491 | #233 |
| 2011 | 1,830 | #199 |
| 2012 | 2,125 | #181 |
| 2013 | 2,511 | #162 |
| 2014 | 3,205 | #127 |
| 2015 | 3,343 | #119 |
| 2016 | 3,662 | #107 |
| 2017 | 3,521 | #113 |
| 2018 | 3,412 | #115 |
| 2019 | 3,455 | #111 |
| 2020 | 3,221 | #114 |
| 2021 | 3,149 | #121 |
| 2022 | 2,919 | #127 |
| 2023 | 3,064 | #119 |
| 2024 | 2,958 | #121 |
