Harper
Recorded for both sexesGen Alpha2025 rank
#16
down −4 places
2025 births
6,792
down −602 births
All-time births
139,063
5% of them in 2025
More common than
100%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2016
- 10,803 births
- Best rank
- #9
- in 2018
- First recorded
- 1971
- #8,771 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 2017
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 52 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201610,803#11Peak
- 201810,646#9
- 201710,524#11
- 201910,497#9
- 201510,311#10
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #9 in 2018 · peak births 10,803 in 2016
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 5% boys■ 95% girls
6,769 boys · 139,063 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Harper has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.