Harvest
- Gender
- Mostly girls
- Say it
- HAR-vist
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,360 for girls
Harvest is a name of English origin, meaning “harvest, autumn”. In 2025 it ranked 8,360th for girls in the US (12 babies).
What does Harvest mean?
English: English word, from Old English haerfest
“harvest, autumn”
The Old English word haerfest originally meant the season of autumn itself.
Is Harvest a girl's or a boy's name?
In recent years, Harvest has been given to girls and boys, mostly girls. In 2025, it was given to 12 girls and 13 boys in the US.
How popular is Harvest in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,360th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 12 about 1 in 130,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 25% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 12 girls in the US were named Harvest, making it the 8,360th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,001st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 38 girls. It first appears in the records in 1973. 13 boys were also named Harvest in 2025 (6,442nd for boys).
2025 had fewer girls named Harvest than any year since 2014.
Half of all the girls named Harvest in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2024, 84% of the babies named Harvest in the US were girls.
Harvest in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,360 |
| 2024 | 31 | #4,471 |
| 2023 | 31 | #4,451 |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,891 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,603 |
| 2020 | 25 | #5,001 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,021 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,517 |
| 2017 | 19 | #6,283 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,610 |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 7 | #13,477 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,370 |
| 2010 | 6 | #14,953 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 9 | #11,626 |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 9 | #10,915 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,754 |
| 2003 | 6 | #13,837 |
| 2002 | 5 | #15,426 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,147 |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 5 | #13,511 |
| 1995 | 6 | #11,778 |
| 1994 | 6 | #11,771 |
| 1993 | 5 | #13,435 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 0 | – |
| 1990 | 0 | – |
| 1989 | 0 | – |
| 1988 | 0 | – |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 0 | – |
| 1984 | 0 | – |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,272 |
| 1982 | 5 | #10,514 |
| 1981 | 11 | #5,884 |
| 1980 | 5 | #10,390 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,694 |
| 1978 | 13 | #4,931 |
| 1977 | 7 | #7,565 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,046 |
| 1975 | 9 | #5,982 |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,433 |
Names like Harvest
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Harper, Harlow, Hadley, Holland, Haven, Miller, Oakley, Scarlett, Ellie, Ember, Harley, Merritt
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie, Hazel, Carter
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Harvest: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/harvest, updated 20 October 2026.