Harriet is the English form of the French Henriette — from the Old Germanic haim (home) + ric (ruler). Harriet Tubman (c. 1822-1913) — the formerly enslaved American abolitionist who personally led 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people via the Underground Railroad; later served as a Union Army scout and the first woman to lead an armed assault in the Civil War (the Combahee River Raid, 1863). Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) — *author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852), the second-best-selling book of the 19th century after the Bible*, which Lincoln credited with starting the Civil War.
Featured on the planned redesigned US $20 bill.
Harriet does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Harriet reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.