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Harry

A name of Germanic roots meaning "home ruler", carried here through English. In Poland it stays rare: only a few hundred men and boys have it, given to fewer each year and always to boys.

Harry Pronunciation

Harry is pronounced KHAHR-rih (/ˈxarrɨ/).

Alive in 2025
435
Newborns 2025
2
National rank
#1417

What Harry means

Where Harry comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Harry began as the everyday English way of saying Henry. Behind Henry stands a Germanic name built from words for home and ruler, which is how Harry came to mean home ruler. The English took the formal Henry and wore it down into something shorter for daily use, and Harry was the result.

For a long stretch the two names were almost interchangeable. When Shakespeare wrote Henry V, he had the king rally his soldiers as Harry: "Cry 'God for Harry, England, and Saint George!'" Several English kings named Henry answered to Harry among their own people. The name belonged to farmers and princes alike.

Short and quick. Harry has no long ceremony to it. A child called Harry on a Polish class register sits easily beside a Henryk, both drawing on the old Germanic sense of the one who rules the home.

How many people are named Harry

1 in 49072 men in Poland is named Harry. 435 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1417 among male names.

People with the name Harry 2019 → 2025
435 +165 since 2019
2020 290 +20
2021 301 +11
2022 325 +24
2023 353 +28
2024 387 +34
2025 435 +48

Harry's popularity over time

2 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1587 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020. Still the #1417 name among living men, even as it slips to #1587 among newborns.

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2 newborns with the name Harry in 2025
national rank #1587 that year

Where parents choose Harry

Harry is most popular in Greater Poland, 174% above the national average (6 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Lesser Poland (+73%) and Masovian (+66%). It is least common in Silesian, 14% below average.

Chosen most
  • Greater Poland
    +174%
    1 in 35,874 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +73%
    1 in 56,729 babies
  • Masovian
    +66%
    1 in 59,044 babies
Chosen least
  • Silesian
    −14%
    1 in 113,792 babies

Harry as a middle name

Harry is a first name for 435 men in Poland and a middle name for another 236, a 65/35 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 457th, between Gregor (237) and Pio (236).

As a first name
435
As a middle name
236
first name 65% middle name 35%
Middle-name ranking men

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