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Girl's name · #16 in the US (2025) · 2010s wave
99% girls · 1% boys — Harper is also given to boys: 77 in 2025, about 1 in 65 in recent years. Harper →
Its best rank, #9, came in 2018 — Harper has settled just below that height, at #16 in 2025, with roughly 139,000 girls since 1971.
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka chose the name for their daughter, Harper Grace, born in 2010. David and Victoria Beckham chose it for their daughter, Harper, born in 2011.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 51 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Harper is especially popular in Australia (QLD).
#10 in Australia (QLD) (2025) · #13 in Australia (VIC) (2025) · #15 in Australia (NSW) (2025) · #17 in New Zealand (2025) · #23 in England & Wales (2025) · #23 in Scotland (2025) · #40 in N. Ireland (2025) · #54 in Ireland (2025) · #541 in Netherlands (2025) · #841 in France (2025) · #1,064 in Belgium (2025) · #1,074 in Switzerland (2025) and 2 more.
It is also an American family name — about 124,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 46 notable people named Harper:
Entertainers appear 2.24× more often than among typical names — e.g. Harper Steele, American screenwriter.
Similar names: Aria · Ariella · Scarlett · Piper · Avery · Ava
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