girl's name
Harmony
HAR-muh-nee
- Origin Greek
- Gender Girl
- Syllables 3
- Letters 7
- Popularity Top 1000 (US)
- Births on record 42,909
the United States
#276
2025 births
Harmony began as a carpentry term — the Greek harmonia is a fitting-together, from harmos, a joint, so the word described how timbers met long before it described how notes sound. Homer uses it of the pegs joining Odysseus's raft.
- Harmony is a name of Greek origin.
- Peaked in 2015, when 1,771 babies were given the name.
- Its usage has held steady over the past decade.
- Today about 1 in 2,952 babies in the United States is given this name.
- First appears in US birth records in 1915.
- 3 syllables, with the stress on syllable 1.
Harmony over time
Births per decade in the United States, 1910s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.
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| Decade | Births |
|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 |
| 1920s | 7 |
| 1940s | 7 |
| 1950s | 30 |
| 1960s | 30 |
| 1970s | 1,300 |
| 1980s | 1,465 |
| 1990s | 1,663 |
| 2000s | 7,247 |
| 2010s | 16,327 |
| 2020s (to 2025) | 8,184 |
What Harmony means
Harmony means a fitting together, or agreement. The Greek names a physical join first, and the musical and social senses are both extensions of that.
Where Harmony comes from
Harmony is the Greek harmonia, a joining or fastening, built on harmos, a joint — the same root as the verb for fitting planks together in shipbuilding. Homer uses it of the pegs joining Odysseus's raft. The musical sense is a later abstraction, and in Greek it meant the tuning or scale rather than simultaneous notes. Harmonia in myth is the daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, war joined to love.
Harmony in use
Harmony peaked in the United States in 2015, when 1,771 babies were registered, and our data marks it stable rather than falling. It now ranks 276th in the United States on 1,123 births, 540th in England and Wales on 74, 580th in Scotland on 5, 999th in Ireland on 3 and 3001st in France on 10, across 42,909 lifetime births in six of the seven markets we track.
How popular is Harmony?
In 2025, Harmony was given to 1,123 babies in the United States, ranking #276 that year. It is a well-established, commonly used name.
Where Harmony is used
US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.
Names that peaked alongside Harmony
These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.
Parents who like Harmony also like
Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Harmony over the last century — the same taste, a different name.
Harmony in other languages
The same name as it is spelled elsewhere — not shortenings, and not different names that merely sound alike. Each one has its own record here.
Sibling names for Harmony
Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Harmony — the two things that make a sibling set grate.
Common questions about Harmony
What does the name Harmony mean?
A fitting-together — the Greek harmonia, from harmos, a joint.
Was it originally about music?
No. It described joining timbers; Homer uses it of the pegs in Odysseus's raft.
Who was Harmonia?
The daughter of Ares and Aphrodite — war joined to love.
How popular is Harmony?
276th in the United States, and it charts in five of our six markets.
Is Harmony a girl's or a boy's name?
Harmony is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.
How many syllables are in Harmony?
Harmony has 3 syllables.
Is Harmony a good name?
That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Harmony currently ranks #276 in the United States. Its usage has held steady over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.