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, Harry, Henrik, Hattie

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 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.^[2]

Variants

As a given name

• Harriet Chalmers Adams (1875-1937), American writer, explorer and photographer
• Harriet Adams (1892–1982), American juvenile novelist
• 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 Bates (1856-1886), American novelist, poet
• Harriet Backer (1845-1932), Norwegian painter
• 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 Brooks (1876–1933), Canadian nuclear physicist
• Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died 1866), British artist
• Harriet Abbott Lincoln Coolidge (1849-1902), American author, philanthropist, reformer
• Harriet Elphinstone-Dick (1852–1902), early English-Australian swimming champion
• Harriet Ford (1868–1929), American actress, playwright
• 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 Hemings (1801–1870), one of four mixed-race children born to Sally Hemings; their father is widely believed to have been President Thomas Jefferson
• Harriet Howard (1823–1865), mistress of Napoleon III
• Harriet Ann Jacobs (1813–1897), American abolitionist and writer
• Harriet B. Jones (1856–1943), the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia
• Harriet Jones (musician), British singer
• Harriet Keopuolani (1778–1823), Hawaiian queen
• Harriet McEwen Kimball (1834–1917), American poet, hymnwriter, philanthropist, hospital co-founder
• Harriet Lane (1830–1903), niece of bachelor President James Buchanan and First Lady of the United States
• Harriet Lerner (born 1944), U.S. feminist and clinical psychologist
• Harriet Lindeman (born 1946), Finnish politician
• Harriet Low (1809–1877), American diarist
• 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 Nelson (1909–1994), American singer and actress best known for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
• Harriet Owen, actress
• 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 Roberts, stage name Harriet (born 1966), British dance pop singer
• Harriet Richardson (1874–1958), American carcinologist
• 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 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 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

As a surname

• Fulchran-Jean Harriet

Notes