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Boy's name · #1300 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Few names move less than Harris — on the books since 1880, #1300 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 16,000 boys have carried the name since. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
See where Harris is more common.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 20 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Harris is especially popular in Scotland.
#10 in Scotland (2025) · #395 in N. Ireland (2025) · #396 in England & Wales (2025) · #829 in Ireland (2025) · #1,083 in Canada (2025) · #1,447 in Sweden (2025) · #2,505 in Austria (2025) · #4,377 in France (2025) · #13,275 in Italy (2024) · #798 in Poland (2024) · #333 in New Zealand (2023) · #5,470 in Ecuador (2022) and 1 more.
It is also an American family name — about 624,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 204 notable people named Harris:
No single standout — notable Harrises spread across many fields.
Together with its spelling variant Haris (#2428), Harris would rank around #1060 with about 210 births last year — the newborns split about 73/27 between Harris and Haris.
Similar names: Aariz · Wiley · Harley · Coy · Perry · Davis
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