Harper

Girl · recorded 1971–2025

  • #16in 2025
  • 1 in 236girls in 2025
  • −27%last ten years
  • 4.4×in Wyoming

Most popular in 2018. Quieter now: down 27% in ten years.

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Meaning

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Its story

Popularity since 1971

03,1296,25819711985199820122025

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 52 recorded years as a table
Harper, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
19713
19746
19755
19766
19773
19787
19804
19815
19824
19833
19843
19858
19865
19875
19886
19896
19906
199112
199211
199313
199419
199530
199661
199749
199853
199963
200075
200198
200291
2003109
2004149
2005196
2006314
2007379
2008597
20091,036
20101,482
20112,658
20124,088
20134,721
20145,385
20155,776
20166,096
20176,096
20186,258
20196,254
20205,474
20215,149
20225,016
20234,860
20244,564
20254,226

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Compared with the country as a whole, pooled over 2023–2025.

  1. Wyoming 4.4×
  2. Vermont 4.1×
  3. Alaska 2.8×
  4. Maine 2.8×
  5. New Hampshire 2.7×

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2025
6,792
Rank in 2025
#16
How rare
1 in 236 girls
Since 1971
139,063

Most popular in 2018, at 6,258 per million girls born.

Over the ten years to 2025 it has fallen by 27% per million girls born.

Top 5 states by concentration, pooled over 2023–2025
StateTimes the national rateBirths pooled
Wyoming4.4×50
Vermont4.1×52
Alaska2.8×63
Maine2.8×115
New Hampshire2.7×140

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.