Harith
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Malay: alternative form of Haris
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/harith/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Harith is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Malaysia than in any other country. In Oman it is the 56th most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- OMOman≈1 in 3.7K
- LKSri Lanka≈1 in 7.1K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Malaysia (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 74 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,300 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Oman, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
‘Provider’, ‘breadwinner’. Al-Harith is also an epithet of the lion.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
How Harith is read(measured from records)
Harith is one spelling over 3 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.
- Malay44%
alternative form of Haris
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English22%
North African; cultivator.
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- Arabic11%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Harith in Arabic.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Harith 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MY Malaysia | #470 | ≈5,300 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | — | Harith | 58 |
| LK Sri Lanka | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Harith | 13 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈2,600 est. | ≈1 in 23K | — | Harith | 20 |
| OM Oman | #56 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | — | Harith | 33 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 264K | — | Harith | 32 |
| JO Jordan | — | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Harith | 16 |
| US United States | — | 297 | 1 in 1.1M | 297 | Harith | 74 |
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. 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)
Harith is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
‘Provider’, ‘breadwinner’. Al-Harith is also an epithet of the lion.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
A collector of
as a nameDictionary of Islamic Names
Poderoso
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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)
- Al-Harith ibn Abbadb. 500SApoet
- Al-Harith ibn Surayjb. 601IQArab rebel leader in Khurasan (died 746)
- Abu Firas al-Hamdanib. 932IQnot in their usual nameHamdanid dynasty prince and poet (932–968)
- Al-Harith ibn Kaladab. 1000SAIslamic scholar
- Harith Taha al-Rawib. 1929IQIraqi poet
- Harith al-Dharib. 1941IQSunni Arab cleric
- Harith Ibn Hilliza Ul-YashkuriArabian poet
- Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalibuncle of Muhammad
- Harith Haziqactor
- Abu Waqid al-Laythinot in their usual nameAccording to some, he participated at Badr (Very unlikely). Other said that he became Muslim later on the day of conquest. There is also differences regarding his date of death.
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 30 sources across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 297 | #29,690 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2015 | 10 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2019 | 9 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2014 | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1999 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2022 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2018 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2013 | 6 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
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
- Where does the name Harith come from?
- ‘Provider’, ‘breadwinner’. Al-Harith is also an epithet of the lion. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Harith?
- In the etymology graph, Haris is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Harith?
- A machine transcription gives /harith/ (IPA) for Malay.
- Is Harith a male or female name?
- Harith 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 does the name Harith mean?
- In Malay, alternative form of Haris
- In which country does Harith have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.3 thousand people named Harith in Malaysia, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled harith.
- How common is the name Harith?
- In the United States, the national register counted 297 people named Harith in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Harith compared with other names?
- In Malaysia, Harith is the 470th most common given name of 388,685 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Harith?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harithThe 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, “Harith” — the 470th most common given name in Malaysia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.