Name meaning & stats
Harper
Harper means “harp player”. 145,156 US babies since 1940, peak 2016.
What it means
“harp player”
Well documented
In US birth records
Peak year: 2016
145,156 US babies were named Harper between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Harper (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Name twins (peaked around 2016)