Harriet

A female given name, form of Harry.

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Harriet is a female name.
The name is an English version of the French Henriette, a female form of Henri. The male name Harry was formed in a similar way from Henry. All these names are derived from Henrik, which is ultimately derived from the Germanic name Heimiric, derived from the word elements heim, or "home" and ric, meaning "power, ruler". The male name Henry was first used in England by Normans. Popular nicknames for Harriet include Hattie, Hatty, Hetty, Hettie, Hennie, Harry, Harri, Harrie, and Etta or Ettie. The name can be lengthened to Harrietta or Henriette Henrietta.
The name was the 73rd most popular name for baby girls born in England and Wales in 2007. It last ranked in the top 1,000 most popular names for girls in the United States in the 1960s.

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Fem. proper name, fem. of Harry. We think that gentlemen lose a particle of their respect for young ladies who allow their names to be abbreviated into such cognomens as Kate, Madge, Bess, Nell, &c.; Surely it is more lady-like to be called Catharine, Margaret, Eliza, or Ellen. We have heard the beautiful name Virginia degraded into Jinny; and Harriet called Hatty, or even Hadge. [Eliza Leslie, "Miss Leslie's Behaviour Book," Philadelphia, 1839] Nautical slang Harriet Lane "preserved meat" (1896) is the name of the victim of a notorious murder in which it was alleged the killer chopped up her body.

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Form of Harry, means: home ruler.

Henrietta, Henry, Henrik, Thierry, Hattie, Harry

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Harriet Tubman	1820	African-American abolitionist and humanitarian
2	Harriet Beecher Stowe	1811	Abolitionist, author
3	Harriet Harman	1950	British politician
4	Harriet Walter	1950	British actress
5	Harriet Miers	1945	Failed nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States
6	Harriet Sansom Harris	1955	American actress
7	Harriet Ann Jacobs	1813	American Civil War nurse, slave, writer and abolitionist
8	Harriet Martineau	1802	English writer and sociologist
9	Harriet Nelson	1909	Actress, singer
10	Harriet Lane	1830	Acting First Lady of the United States
11	Harriet Hemings	1801	American slave
12	Harriet Wheeler	1963	English singer
13	Harriet Quimby	1875	American aviator, screenwriter
14	Harriet Sutherland-Leveson-Gower, Duchess of Sutherland	1806	British duchess
15	Harriet Andersson	1932	Swedish actress
16	Harriet Thorpe	1957	British actress
17	Harriet Leveson-Gower, Countess Granville	1785	British noble
18	Harriet Taylor Mill	1807	English philosopher
19	Harriet Green	1961	British chief executive
20	Mad Harriet
21	Harriet Smithson	1800	Anglo-Irish actress
22	Harriet Mordaunt	1848	Involved in a scandal
23	Harriet Scott	1972	British radio presenter
24	Harriet A. Hall	1945	Medical doctor & skeptic
25	Harriet Sohmers Zwerling	1928	American writer
26	Harriet Powers	1837	Quilter
27	Harriet Arbuthnot	1793	Diarist
28	Harriet E. Wilson	1825	African-American novelist
29	Harriet Monroe	1860	American poet and editor
30	Harriet Hosmer	1830	American artist
31	Harriet Sylvia Ann Howland Green Wilks	1871	American businesswoman
32	Harriet Howard	1823	Mistress and financial backer of Louis Napoleon, later Napoleon III of France.
33	Harriet Hayes
34	Harriet Lerner	1944	American psychologist
35	Harriet Bosse	1878	A Swedish–Norwegian actress
36	Harriet Brooks	1876	Canadian nuclear physicist
37	Harriet Chalmers Adams	1875	American explorer, writer and photographer
38	Harriet McDougal	1939	American writer
39	Harriet Cohen	1895	British musician
40	Harriet Williams Russell Strong	1844	American social activist, inventor, Conservationist, and leading figure of the early woman's movement.
41	Harriet Adams	1892	American juvenile mystery novelist and publisher
42	Harriet Hoctor	1905	American ballet dancer and actor
43	Harriet Shaw Weaver	1876	British magazine editor, journalist and political activist
44	Harriet E. MacGibbon	1905	Actress (1905-1987)
45	Harriet Heise	1966	German television presenter and journalist
46	Harriet Dart	1996
47	Harriet Backer	1845	Norwegian painter
48	Harriet Hanson Robinson	1825	American suffragist
49	Harriet McBryde Johnson	1957	American lawyer
50	Harriet Manamela	1971	South African actor
51	Harriet Klausner	1952	American book reviewer
52	Harriet	1966	British singer
53	Harriet Zuckerman	1937	American sociologist
54	Harriet Forten Purvis	1810	American abolitionist
55	Harriet Taylor Upton	1853	American suffragist
56	Harriet Whitney Frishmuth	1880	American artist
57	Harriet Doerr	1910	Novelist, short story writer, essayist
58	Harriet Bishop	1817	Minnesota educator and activist
59	Harriet A. Washington	1951	American writer
60	Harriet Hemenway	1858	American socialite
61	Harriet Boyd-Hawes	1871	American archaeologist
62	Harriet Mayor Fulbright	1933	American arts administrator
63	Harriet Van Horne	1920	American journalist
64	Harriet Hubbard Ayer	1849	American journalist
65	Harriet Creighton	1909	American geneticist
66	Harriet Elizabeth Byrd	1926	Wyoming politician
67	Harriet Nahanee	1935	Canadian activist
68	Harriet C. Babbitt	1947	American government official
69	Harriet Burns	1928	American artist
70	Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford	1835	American author
71	Harriet Cass	1952	Freelance broadcaster
72	Harriet Baber		Professor of Philosoph
73	Harriet Hunt	1978	British chess player
74	Harriet Low	1809	American writer
75	Harriet Metcalf	1958	Olympic medalist in rowing
76	Harriet Philpin		British actress
77	Harriet Windsor-Clive	1797
78	Harriet Bridgeman	1942	British art historian
79	Harriet Yeo		British politician
80	Harriet Winslow	1796	American missionary
81	Harriet Brown		American writer
82	Harriet Bland	1915	Athletics competitor
83	Harriet Holter	1922	Norwegian psychologist
84	Harriet Lane Levy	1867	American writer
85	Harriet Schock		American singer
86	Harriet Jane Moore	1801	Watercolour artist
87	Harriet Pilpel	1911	American women's rights activist
88	Harriet Babcock	1877
89	Harriet O'Neill	1950	American judge
90	Harriet Lamb	1961	British activist
91	Harriet Elizabeth Brown	1907	American educator
92	Harriet Schulenburg
93	Harriet R. Gold Boudinot	1805	Wife of the leader of the Cherokee Nation
94	Harriet Frank, Jr.	1917	American screenwriter
95	Harriet Lee	1757	English novelist, dramatist and educator
96	Harriet Leve		Broadway producer
97	Harriet Mathews	1973	British diplomat
98	Harriet Bedell	1875	American saint
99	Harriet Drummond		American politician
100	Harriet Pelham-Holles, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne	1701	Wife of British Prime Minister
101	Harriet Josephine Terry	1885	Alpha Kappa Alpha founder
102	Harriet Shing		Australian politician
103	Harriet Mellon	1777	Actress
104	Harriet Law	1831	British freethinker
105	Harriet Colliander	1943	Swedish politician
106	Harriet Theresa Comstock	1860	American writer
107	Harriet Hammond	1899	Actress
108	Harriet Moody	1891	American architect
109	Harriet Krijgh	1991	Dutch cellist
110	Harriet Monsell	1811	Founder of a community of Augustinian nuns
111	Harriet Demetriou		Filipino judge
112	Harriet Starr Cannon	1823	Founder of the Community of St. Mary
113	Fulchran-Jean Harriet	1776	French painter
114	Harriet Livermore	1788	American preacher
115	Harriet Barber	1968	English painter
116	Harriet G. Walker	1841	President of Abbott Northwestern Hospital
117	Harriet Rathlef-Keilmann	1887	German sculptor and writer
118	Harriet Ritvo	1946	American historian
119	Harriet Anena		Ugandan writer
120	Harriet Nevins	1841	American philanthropist and animal rights activist
121	Harriet Wadeson		American psychotherapist
122	Harriet Vaughan Cheney	1796	American writer
123	Harriet Ziefert	1941	American children's writer
124	Harriet Belchic	1928	American political activist
125	Harriet Mead	1969	British sculptor
126	Harriet Ware	1799	American teacher
127	Harriet Mann Miller	1831	American ornithologist
128	Harriet Browne	1790	Composer
129	Harriet Robinson Scott		African American slave involved in Scott v Sanford
130	Harriet Morgan	1830	Natural history illustrator
131	Harriet Spicer	1950	Member of the Judicial Appointments Commission
132	Harriet Edquist		Australian architect
133	Harriet Patience Dame	1815
134	Harriet Butler	1900	US tennis player
135	Harriet Gouldsmith	1787	British artist
136	Harriet Köhler	1977	German journalist
137	Harriet Phipps	1841	British aristocrat
138	Harriet Slater	1903	British politician
139	Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson	1956
140	Harriet Dyer
141	Harriet Mayanja-Kizza		Ugandan academic
142	Harriet Hallowell	1873	American artist
143	Harriet Morrison Irwin	1828	American architect
144	Harriet Bart
145	Harriet Scott Chessman	1951	American novelist
146	Harriet Jones	1993	British singer-songwriter
147	Harriet Bates	1856	American writer
148	Harriet Gibbs Marshall	1868	African-American musician, writer, and educator
149	Harriet Henrietta Beaufort	1778
150	Harriet Miller Davidson	1839	British poet and novelist
151	Harriet Winslow Sewall	1819	American poet
152	Harriet Miller	1919	American politician
153	Harriet Newell	1793	American missionary
154	Harriet Elam-Thomas		American diplomat
155	Harriet Smith Windsor		American politician
156	Harriet Finlay-Johnson	1871	British schoolteacher
157	Harriet Parr	1828	British author of the Victorian era
158	Harriet Straub	1872	German writer (1872-1945)
159	Harriet Barnes Pratt	1878	American horticulturalist
160	Harriet Ludlow Clarke		British engraver
161	Harriet Kawahinekipi	1823	Hawaiian noblewoman
162	Harriet Presser	1936	American demographer
163	Harriet Forssell	1934	Swedish actress
164	Harriet Andreassen	1925	Norwegian politician
165	Harriet B. Jones	1832	American politician
166	Harriet Kavanagh	1799	Irish artist
167	Juan Alberto Harriet	1888	Argentinian businessperson
168	Harriet Russell Morison	1862	Tailoress, trade unionist, suffragist, public servant
169	Harriet Löwenhjelm	1887	Artist and writer
170	Harriet Farley	1812	American writer and journalist
171	Harriet Owen	1993	Cyclist
172	Harriet Merrill Johnson	1886	American writer
173	Harriet Siddons	1783	Scottish actress and theatre manager
174	Harriet Fasenfest	1953	American writer
175	Harriet Evans Paine
176	Harriet Mathew		British socialite
177	Harriet Evans Martin		Irish writer
178	Harriet Taub		American environmental leader
179	Harriet Findlay	1880
180	Harriet Grote	1792	British writer
181	Harriet May Mills	1857	American civil rights leader
182	Harriet Spanel		American politician
183	Harriet Newell Noyes	1844
184	Harriet Ntabazi	1974
185	Harriet Louise Hardy	1906	US physician and professor
186	Harriet E. Derman	1943	American politician
187	Harriet "Hattie" Elizabeth Wilcox	1869	American artist
188	Harriet Shetler	1917	American activist
189	Harriet Letitia Martin	1801	Irish novelist
190	Harriet Auber	1773	British poet
191	Harriet Ohlsson	1978	Swedish songwriter
192	Harriet Bruce-Annan	1965
193	Harriet Werley	1914	American nurse and professor
194	Harriet A. Roche	1835	Canadian writer
195	Harriet Hägglund	1970
196	Harriet Rudolph	1966	German historian of modern age
197	Harriet King	1935	American fencer
198	Harriet Cornelia Mills	1920
199	Harriet Earhart Monroe
200	Harriet Williamson