Haris
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Indonesian: a male given name from Javanese
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈhɑɹis/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haris is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Pakistan than in any other country. In the United Arab Emirates it is the 88th most common given name.
- PKPakistan≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 1.4Kas Hari
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 2.1Kas Hari
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Haris itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Pakistan (inferred from the name graph)
- #1000 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 347 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Pakistan, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Hari in ID Indonesia, AE United Arab Emirates, QA Qatar, Haire in US United States and Harri in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Javanese
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
How Haris is read(measured from records)
Haris is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Hindi34%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Haris in Hindi.
- Indonesian23%
a male given name from Javanese
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English11%
Misspelling of Harris.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Urdu5.5%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Haris in Urdu.
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haris counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PK Pakistan | #935 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | listed | Haris | 86 |
| US United States | — | 138,544as Harry | 1 in 2.4K | 624K | Haire | 347 |
| ID Indonesia | #95 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.1K | listed | Hari | 193 |
| SE Sweden | — | 22,541as Harry | 1 in 453 | 23K | Haris | 16 |
| FI Finland | — | 20,928as Harri | 1 in 266 | 26K | Harri | 13 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | #88 | ≈3,400 est. | ≈1 in 2.9K | — | Hari | 82 |
| QA Qatar | #107 | ≈1,800 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | — | Hari | 32 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Haris is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Swedish, Haris är ett arabiskt namn. Det kan komma från två olika ord som betyder ’odlare’ (< Harith) eller ’vakt, vaksam’.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In Arabic, ploughman, cultivator, agnomen of lion
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Arabic, vigilant, guardian, protector
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
In Hungarian, corncrake (a bird of the rail family, Crex crex)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harith al-Muhasibib. 781IQnot in their usual nameArab theologian and scholar (781–857)
- Haris Silajdžićb. 1945BABosnian politician and academic
- Haris Alexioub. 1950GRGreek singer and musician
- Harris Savidesb. 1957USnot in their usual nameAmerican cinematographer (1957–2012)
- Haris Zambarloukosb. 1970CYGreek Cypriot cinematographer
- Haris Medunjaninb. 1985BABosnian association football player
- Haris Seferovićb. 1992CHSwiss association football player (born 1992)
- Haris Vučkićb. 1992SISlovenian professional footballer
- Haris Tabakovićb. 1994CHBosnian-Swiss association football player
- Haris Belkeblab. 1994FRFrench and Algerian footballer (born 1994)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 87 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #6,391 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 1K | #1,676 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 888 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 151 | #2,270 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 64 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 56 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 47 | #6,391 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #11,579 |
Reference works 8
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ismlar.com — Uzbek given-name dictionary (meanings, gender, origin)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Haris mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Javanese Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Haris?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈhɑɹis/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- Is Haris a male or female name?
- Haris is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Haris?
- In the etymology graph, Harith is a form of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Haris have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 166 thousand people named Haris in Pakistan, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haris.
- How common is the name Haris?
- In the United States, the national register counted 138,544 people named Harry in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Haris compared with other names?
- In Pakistan, Haris is the 935th most common given name of 77,659 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Haris?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haris” — the 935th most common given name in Pakistan. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.