Given name
Harith
“a cultivator; a provider”
Harith is used as a given name. One African interpretation is “a cultivator; a provider.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One African interpretation is “a cultivator; a provider.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is African.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1999. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Harith through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 121
- 121 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2015
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 8
- #9,206 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 8 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 9,206 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2015. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 297 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Harith’s family of names
Harith has a related form in HARIS. Harith has a related form in Hareth. Harith has a related form in Harethe.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 7
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Harith
- Abu Firas al-HamdaniHamdanid dynasty prince and poet (932–968)
- Al-Harith ibn Hilliza al-YashkuriArabian poet
- Al-Harith ibn SurayjArab rebel leader in Khurasan (died 746)601–746
- Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Muttalibuncle of Muhammad
- Al-Harith ibn KaladaIslamic scholar1000–635
- Abu Waqid al-LaythiAccording 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.
- Al-Harith ibn Abd al-Uzza
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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