Harriet (name) explained
| Harriet |
| Gender: | Female |
| Meaning: | "home ruler" |
| Origin: | Germanic |
| 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 Hallie, 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 Ryan Albee (1829-1873), American social reformer and philanthropist
- 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
- Harriett Ball (1941-2011), American educator who inspired the KIPP program
- Harriet Bates (1856-1886), American novelist, poet
- Harriet Bibby (born 1998), English actress
- 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 Frances Carpenter (1868/75 – 1956), American educator, writer, suffragist
- Harriet E. Clark (1850-1945), American teacher and author
- 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) (born 1993), British singer
- Harriet B. Jones (1856–1943), the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia
- Harriet B. Kells (1842–1913), American educator, activist, suffragist, feminist, editor
- 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 Nisbet Latta (1853–1910), American civic leader
- 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 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 (1928–2019), 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 Swanson, character from the anime series Glitter Force (originally named Haru Midorikawa)
- 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
Fictional Characters
- Harriet, is a boss and a member of the Broodals in Super Mario Odyssey
- Harriet M. Welsh, the main character of Harriet the Spy.
Notes and References
- Web site: Meaning, origin and history of the name Henry. Mike. Campbell.
- Web site: Popularity for the name Harriet. Mike. Campbell.
