Harrell
Recorded 1902–2016 · United States
Harrell was most popular in 1947, when 56 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,070 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,635 people named Harrell.
Harrell over time
How old is the name Harrell?
Harrell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1902, which makes it about 123 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 98 of the 124 years since. It was last recorded in 2016.
How many people are named Harrell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,635 American births named Harrell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,119 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Harrell in 2025?
Harrell was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Harrell getting more or less popular?
Harrell is out of use. It averaged 8 births a year a decade ago and has not been recorded in the last five years.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Harrell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Harrell is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 2,635 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Harrell?
Roughly 1,119 Americans named Harrell are alive today — 42% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 66 years old, and half are between 52 and 77.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Harrell is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org