Hariri

surname · Latin script

Meaning: occupational name for a silk merchant, from Arabic harlrt ‘related to or associated with silk’

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

/hɝˈɪɹi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Hariri is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 897K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 51K
  • DKDenmark1 in 115K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

371 people, 2010

Sources
168 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 51K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

occupational name for a silk merchant, from Arabic harlrt ‘related to or associated with silk’. Harir is also the name of an ancient region on the right bank of the Euphrates River in Syria. The Arabic scholar and writer Abu Muhammad alQasim ibn 'All al-HaffrI (1054—1152) was bom, lived, and died in the city of Basra, in southern Iraq.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Hariri 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.

Where Hariri is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3711 in 897K648Hariri168
SE Sweden2021 in 51K202—13
ES Spain1101 in 455K110—5
BR Brazil571 in 3.7M57——
DK Denmark511 in 115K51——
FI Finland301 in 186K30—1
NO Norway221 in 249K22——

371 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Hariri is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Morocco, United States, Belgium

    Also written Hâriri, Harirị, Ḥarīrī, Hàrîrî

  • Spanish surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Ḥarīrī

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Harîrî, Ḥarîrî, Ḥarīrī

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Malaysia, India, Syria

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Ḥarîrî, Hãrįrį

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Hariri 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.

  • vendedor de seda; silk dealer; Tunisie

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Basque, dative indefinite of hari

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Swahili, silk

    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)

188019001920194019601980Mahmud Bayram el-Tunsi, b. 1893Muhammad ibn Izz ad-Din al-Hariri, b. 1922Zaki Harari, b. 1926Ahmed Al-Hariri, b. 1943Rafic Hariri, b. 1944Bahia Hariri, b. 1952Bahaa Hariri, b. 1966May Hariri, b. 1968Saad Harirị, b. 1970

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)

FormalDear Hariri,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 24 sources across 15 countries.

Official registers attesting Hariri
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020648#37,037
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000393#50,055
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010371#55,386
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—202#4,111
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—110#25,784
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—110#25,650
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—57#95,634
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—51#10,342
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—30#35,435
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—22#40,549
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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 Hariri come from?
occupational name for a silk merchant, from Arabic harlrt ‘related to or associated with silk’. Harir is also the name of an ancient region on the right bank of the Euphrates River in Syria. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
How do you pronounce Hariri?
A machine transcription gives /hɝˈɪɹi/ (IPA) for Arabic.
What does the name Hariri mean?
Recorded meaning: occupational name for a silk merchant, from Arabic harlrt ‘related to or associated with silk’.
In which country does Hariri have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 371 people named Hariri, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled hariri.
Where is Hariri most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Hariri is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 51 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Hariri?
In the United States, the national register counted 371 people named Hariri in 2010, about 1 in 897 thousand residents.

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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, “Hariri”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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