How rare is the name Harmony?

23,558 people in the United States have the first name Harmony, about 1 in 12,821. It ranks #1,438 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

HARMONY

#1,438

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
23,558
About
1 in 12,821
This common or more
74.7%
Who bears it

Of the 23,558 people named Harmony, 39.3% reported their origin as White, 35.5% as Black and 12.1% as Hispanic or Latino. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Harmony peaked in 2015, when 1,771 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19152025
Peak year
2015
Births that year
1,771
In 2025*
1,123 ▼37%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 36,265 babies have been given the name since 1915. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Harmony by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 2010s, when it ranked #433. The largest share of babies named Harmony, 55.6%, were born in 2013 or later.

1910s#11,6155
1920s#12,7817
1940s#11,6537
1950s#9,59430
1960s#10,83930
1970s#1,6871,300
1980s#1,7451,465
1990s#1,9271,663
2000s#8187,247
2010s#43316,327
2020s#4838,184
Greatest Generation 1901–270%
Baby boom 1946–640.1%
Generation X 1965–804.2%
Millennials 1981–966.1%
Generation Z 1997–1233.9%
2013 and later55.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Harmony is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Harmony has been most common in Nevada (3×), Alaska (2.4×), and Florida (2.1×), and least common in Rhode Island (0.26×).

33,857 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Spelled almost the same

7 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Harmony, most common first.

Also a last name

As a last name, Harmony ranks #47,869 of 156,621, with 477 people. See Harmony as a last name

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