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, Hettie, Hennie, Harri/Harrie, and Etta/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

Drika (Dutch)
Endika (Basque)
Enrica (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)
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)
Yetty (English)^[3]

As a given name

Harriet Andersson, Swedish actress
Harriet Arbuthnot (1793–1834), English diarist, social observer, and political hostess
Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter
Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and writer
Harriet Bland, Olympic gold medal-winning sprinter
Harriet Bosse, actress
Harriet Boyd-Hawes, American archaeologist
Harriet Brooks, nuclear physicist
Harriet Chalmers Adams, American writer, explorer and photographer
Harriet Ludlow Clarke, British artist
Harriet Elphinstone-Dick, early English-Australian swimming champion
Harriet Harman, UK politician and Deputy Leader of the Labour Party
Harriet Hemings, one of four mixed-race children born to Sally Hemings; their father is widely believed to have been the president Thomas Jefferson
Harriet Howard, mistress of Napoleon III
Harriet Lindeman, politician
Harriet Ann Jacobs, American abolitionist and writer
Harriet B. Jones (1856 - 1943), the first woman to be licensed as a physician in West Virginia
Harriet Keopuolani, Hawaiian queen
Harriet Lane, niece of bachelor President James Buchanan and First Lady of the United States
Harriet Lerner, feminist and clinical psychologist
Harriet Low (1809-1877), American diarist
Harriet Martineau, English writer, feminist philosopher, and political economist
Harriet Metcalf, Olympic gold medal-winning rower
Harriet Miers, lawyer and politician
Harriet Nahanee, Canadian Aboriginal rights activist
Harriet Nahienaena, Hawaiian princess
Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress best known for The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
Harriet Owen, actress
Harriet Quimby, first American female pilot and first woman to fly across the English channel
Harriet Roberts, British dance pop singer
Harriet Richardson, American carcinologist
Harriet Anne Scott, English novelist
Harriet Shaw Weaver, journalist and patron of James Joyce
Harriet Smithson, Irish actress and first wife of Berlioz
Harriet Sohmers Zwerling, Beat writer
Harriet Taylor Mill (1807 – 1858), philosopher and women's rights advocate.
Harriet Taylor Upton, suffragette and author
Harriet Tubman, abolitionist
Harriet Wheeler, rock singer
Harriet E. Wilson, first female African-American novelist

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 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 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

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

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