Harper
In 2025 Harper comes in at #16 nationally, and it is easing off its peak. The record does not even know it before 1971; since then, 139,063 American children.
Harper’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Harper, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Harper since 1971
Harper peaked in 2016 at #11; #16 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Harper is most common
Harper is most common in Wyoming: 1.73% of the state's recorded girls' names in 2025. Vermont (1.64%) and Maine (1.38%) follow.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Harper
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Hudson
#17 in 2025
Henry
#5 in 2025 · Teutonic
Hailey
#104 in 2025
Hallie
#120 in 2025
Hadley
#121 in 2025
Hayden
#161 in 2025
Lily
#18 in 2025
Samuel
#18 in 2025 · Hebrew
Browse: names starting with H · all names
About Harper
Where does Harper rank right now?
In 2025 Harper comes in at #16 nationally, and it is easing off its peak. The full curve since 1971 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What does Harper mean?
No recorded meaning in the references we are allowed to cite, Harper keeps its mystery, and we keep our sourcing rule.
What names go with Harper?
The recipe puts Hudson first, then Hailey, on shared origin, a peak within fifteen years, matching syllables and a shared first letter. Run the sibling matcher with your own names for a list scored against them.
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