Harm

Where Harm comes from

Harm hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,079 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1904
    Peak, #810
    9 babies named Harm — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1905
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1943
    Harm Ottenbros born
    Dutch racing cyclist
  5. 1997
    Harm Vanhoucke born
    Belgian cyclist
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Harm Ottenbros · Dutch racing cyclist, 1943–2022
  • Harm Vanhoucke · Belgian cyclist, born 1997
  • Harm Osmers · Football referee, born 1985
  • Harm Lagaay · Dutch automobile designer, born 1946
  • Harm Kuipers · Dutch speed skater and former professor at Maastricht University, born 1947

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.