Given name & surname
Haris
“a cultivator; a provider”
Haris has a related form in Harith. One African interpretation is “a cultivator; a provider.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Haris has a related form in Harith. One African interpretation is “a cultivator; a provider.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Haris has a related form in Harith. An origin associated with Harith is African.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Haris through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,808
- 1,808 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2002
- 68 babies
- 2025
- 56
- #2,428 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −6%
- Steady
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 56 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 2,428 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 6.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 68 in 2002. In 2025, California had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (9). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,517 as a first name in 2020; 912 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Haris’s family of names
Haris has a related form in Harith. Haris has a related form in Harith. Haris is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Харис.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 17
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Haris
- Haris SeferovicSwiss association football player (born 1992)
- Haris SilajdžićBosnian politician and academicborn 1945
- Haris MedunjaninBosnian association football playerborn 1985
- Haris TabakovićBosnian-Swiss association football playerborn 1994
- Haris VučkićSlovenian professional footballerborn 1992
- Haris AlexiouGreek singer and musicianborn 1950
- Charalampos MavriasGreek footballerborn 1994
- Haris BelkeblaFrench and Algerian footballer (born 1994)
- Al-MuhasibiArab theologian and scholar (781–857)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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