Harrie

Where Harrie comes from

Form of Harry.
— Wiktionary's entry for Harrie
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #809 among boys with 6 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  3. 1908
    Harrie Massey born
    Australian physicist
  4. 1944
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  5. 1997
    Harrie Lavreysen born
    Dutch cyclist
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
Namesakes
  • Harrie Lavreysen · Dutch cyclist, born 1997
  • Harrie Massey · Australian physicist, 1908–1983
  • Harrie Smeets · bishop from the Netherlands, 1960–2023
  • Harrie Geelen · Dutch screenwriter, television director, writer, translator, illustrator, animator, poet, film director, voice actor and draughtsperson, 1939–2025
  • Harrie Meyers · Dutch bicycle racer and track cyclist, 1879–1928

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.