Harper
19
Babies in 2024
-62%
10-year change
2015
Peak · 59
-17%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Harper
Harper has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 19 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 62% on a decade earlier.
Harper reached its peak in 2015, when 59 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #618 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 32% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 24 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 613 boys have been officially registered with the name Harper in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 408 boys were registered with the name, starting from 50 in 2014 and ending at 19 in 2024.