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Girl's name · #16 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
99% girls · 1% boys — Harper is also given to boys: 77 in 2025, about 1 in 65 in recent years. Harper →
Its best rank, #9, came in 2018 — Harper has settled just below that height, at #16 in 2025, with roughly 139,000 girls since 1971.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Harper is especially popular in Australia (QLD).
#10 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #13 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #15 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #17 in New Zealand (2025) · #23 in England & Wales (2025) · #23 in Scotland (2025) · #39 in N. Ireland (2025) · #44 in Canada (2025) · #54 in Ireland (2025) · #541 in Netherlands (2025) · #841 in France (2025) · #1,023 in Belgium (2025) and 6 more.
It is also an American family name — about 124,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 46 notable people named Harper:
Entertainers appear 2.24× more often than among typical names — e.g. Harper Steele, Screenwriter and television producer (born 1961).
Similar names: Scarlett · Aria · Addison · Piper · Parker · Skylar
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