Harriet (name)

Harriet
	Harriet Beecher Stowe is one famous Harriet.
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Germanic
Meaning	"home ruler"
Other names
Related names	Henry, Henriette, Henrietta, Harolda, Harry, Henrik, Hattie, Hatty

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.^[1] Popular nicknames for Harriet or Harriett include Hattie, Hatty, Hetty, Hettie, Hennie, Harolda, Harry, Harri, Harrie, and Etta or Ettie. The name can be lengthened to Harrietta, Henriette, or 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.^[2]

Variants

Drika (Dutch)
Endika (Basque)
Enrica, Enrichetta, Errichetta (Italian)
Enriqueta (Spanish)
Etta (English)
Etti (English)
Ettie (English)
Etty (English)
Haliaka (Hawaiian)
Halle (English)
Hallie (English)
Hani (Australian)
Hariala (Hawaiian)
Hariata (Hawaiian)
Harrieta (English)
Harriet (English)
Harriët (Dutch)
Harriett (English)
Harrietta (English)
Harriette (English)
Harriot (English)
Harriott (English)
Hat (English)
Hatsy (English)
Hatt (English/Scots)
Hatti (English)
Hattie (English)
Hatty (English)
Hazza (English)
Heike (Dutch, Frisian, German)
Heinrike (German)
Heintje (Dutch)
Hendrika (Dutch)
Hendrikje (Dutch)
Henka (Polish)
Henna (Finnish)
Hennie (Dutch, English)
Henny (Dutch, English)
Henrieta (Polish)
Henrietta (English, Hungarian)
Henriette (Danish, Dutch, French, German, Norwegian)
Henriikka (Finnish)
Henrika (Swedish)
Henrike (German, Scandinavian)
Henriqueta (Portuguese)
Henryka (Polish)
Hetta (English)
Hetti (English)
Hettie (English)
Hetty (English)
Jetje (Dutch)
Jindřiška (Czech)
Έρρικα (Errica, Errika) (Greek)
Riette (English)
Rika (Dutch, Swedish)
Rike (German)
Riikka (Finnish)
Yetta (English)
Yettie (English)
Harrie (English)
Hari (English)

As a given name

Harriet Adams (1892–1982), American juvenile novelist
Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937), American writer, explorer and photographer
Harriet Andersson (born 1937), Swedish actress
Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess
Harriett Ellen Grannis Arey (1819-1901), American educator, author, editor, publisher
Harriet Pritchard Arnold (1858-1901), American author
Harriet Auber (1773–1862), English poet, hymnwriter
Harriet Backer (1845-1932), Norwegian painter
Harriett Baldwin (born 1960), British politician
Harriet Bates (1856-1886), American novelist, poet
Harriet Blackstone (1864–1939), American artist
Harriet Bland (1915-1991), Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter
Harriet Bosse (1878–1961), Swedish-Norwegian actress
Harriet Boyd-Hawes (1871–1945), American archaeologist
Harriet G. Brittan (1822–1897), British-born American missionary
Harriet Brooks (1876–1933), Canadian nuclear physicist
Harriet Bruce-Annan (born 1965), Ghanaian programmer and humanitarian
Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died 1866), British artist
Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge (1849-1902), American author, philanthropist, reformer
Harriet L. Cramer (1847-1922), American newspaper publisher
Harriet Ball Dunlap (1867-1957), American social reformer
Harriet Elphinstone-Dick (1852–1902), early English-Australian swimming champion
Harriet Ford (1868–1929), American actress, playwright
Harriet Putnam Fowler (1842–1901), American writer
Harriet Schneider French (1824–1906), American physician and temperance movement activist
Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880-1980), American sculptor
Harriet E. Garrison (1848–1930), American physician, writer
Harriet Newell Kneeland Goff (1828-1901), American author, temperance reformer
Harriet Harman (born 1950), UK politician and former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
Harriet Newell Haskell (1835-1907), American educator and administrator
Harriet Hemings (1801–1870), one of four mixed-race children born to Sally Hemings
Harriet Howard (1823–1865), mistress of Napoleon III
Harriet Lane Huntress (1860-1922), Deputy Superintendent Public Instruction in New Hampshire, USA
Harriet Jacobs (1813–1897), American abolitionist and writer
Harriet Jones (musician), British singer
Harriet B. Jones (1856–1943), the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia
Harriet Keopuolani (1778–1823), Hawaiian queen
Harriet McEwen Kimball (1834–1917), American poet, hymnwriter, philanthropist, hospital co-founder
Harriet Knowles (fl. 1845), the first actress in Australia
Harriet Lane (1830–1903), niece of bachelor President James Buchanan and First Lady of the United States
Harriet Lerner (born 1944), American feminist and clinical psychologist
Harriet Lindeman (born 1946), Finnish politician
Harriet Low (1809–1877), American diarist
Hattie Mahood (1860–1940), British Baptist deacon and women's suffragist
Harriet Martineau (1802–1876), English writer, feminist philosopher, and political economist
Harriet Metcalf (born 1958), US Olympic gold medal-winning rower
Harriet Miers (born 1945), Republican lawyer and politician
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807–1858), philosopher and women's rights advocate
Harriet Mann Miller (1831–1918), American author, naturalist, ornithologist
Harriet Nahanee (1935–2007), Canadian Aboriginal rights activist
Harriet Nahienaena (1815–1836), Hawaiian princess
Harriet Ndow (1926 - 2019), Gambian educator
Harriet Nelson (1909–1994), American singer and actress best known for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Harriet Owen (cyclist) (born 1993), British cyclist
Harriet Quimby (1875-1912), first American female pilot and first woman to fly across the English channel
Harriet Newell Ralston (1828-1920), American poet
Harriet Redmond (c.1862–1952), African-American suffragist
Harriet Roberts, stage name Harriet (born 1966), British dance pop singer
Harriët van Reek (born 1957), Dutch writer and illustrator
Harriet Richardson (1874–1958), American carcinologist
Harriet Samuel (1836–1908), English businesswoman and founder the jewellery retailer H. Samuel
Harriet Anne Scott (1819–1894), English novelist
Harriet Smithson (1800–1854), Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz
Harriet Mabel Spalding (1862–1935), American poet, litterateur
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (1835–1921), American writer
Harriet Bradford Tiffany Stewart (1798–1830), American missionary
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896), American abolitionist and writer
Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer (1854–1945), British botanical illustrator
Harriet Toompere (born 1975), Estonian actress
Harriet Tubman (1822–1913), American abolitionist
Harriet Taylor Upton (1853–1945), American suffragette and author
Harriet Merrick Warren (1843–1893), American editor
Harriet Shaw Weaver (1876–1961), journalist and patron of James Joyce
Harriet Wheeler (born 1963), English rock singer
Harriet E. Wilson (1825–1900), first female African-American novelist
Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (born 1928), American beat writer

Fictional

Mad Harriet, DC Comics supervillain
Harriet Arkham, daughter of the founder of Arkham Asylum in Batman comic books
Harriet Hyde, Julia Jekyll's alter-ego in Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde
Harriet Jones, British Prime Minister in Doctor Who
Harriet Kepner-Avery, daughter of April Kepner and Jackson Avery in the television series Grey's Anatomy
Harriet Morton, protagonist of Eva Ibbotson's novel A Company of Swans
Harriet Schulenburg, character in the British sitcom Green Wing
Harriet Sims, U.S. Navy officer in the TV show JAG
Harriet Shelton, police officer in the British soap opera Doctors
Harriet Smith, character from Jane Austen's novel Emma
Harriet Vane, fictional mystery author in Dorothy L. Sayers' "Lord Peter" stories
Harriet Vanger, character from the novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harriet Watson, John Watson's sister in the TV series Sherlock
Harriet M. Welsch, title character of Harriet the Spy
Harriet Broodal, fictional rabbit character in the video game Super Mario Odyssey
Harriet the Turtle, from Franklin
Harriet the Hamster Fairy, from the Rainbow Magic book franchise
Harriet, a Simon Kidgits character developed by Simon Brand Ventures

Animals

Harriet (tortoise), a Galápagos tortoise which had an estimated age of 175 years at the time of her death

As a surname

Fulchran-Jean Harriet

Notes

^ Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Henry".
^ Campbell, Mike. "Popularity for the name Harriet".

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[1] Campbell, Mike. "Meaning, origin and history of the name Henry".

[2] Campbell, Mike. "Popularity for the name Harriet".

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