as a First Name
Pet form of Henry. This was the usual English form of Henry in the Middle Ages and later. It was used by Shakespeare, for example, as the familiar name of the mature King Henry V (compare Hal). Since the publication of the first of J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter titles (Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone) in 1997, Harry has become extremely popular as an independent given name. A meaning of the name Harry is Army Ruler.
| 253rd in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Hundreds of thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 241,432
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 352,732
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Pennsylvania
- has the most people named Harry per capita
- 1913
- marked the height of its popularity
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