I generally tend to dislike surname names, but I actually like Harris a lot more than Harry. In fact I don't like Harry at all, nor do I like Henry, but Harris is cool.
I hope this isn't too uncouth but Aris is Cockney slang for Arse: Aris is short for Aristotle; Aristotle = bottle; bottle and glass = arse.Harris said with a Cockney accent sees the H dropped and it sounds exactly like the slang word for arse.Cockney has been on a huge decline in recent years with London's rapid demographic shift so the dialect has been mostly replaced with "MLE" multicultural London English, so Harris is unlikely to be heard as Arse with the new population, but it has been a source of humour for me when I meet a young 'arris. No offence intended to any Harrises out there of course.
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Harris and Me is a young adult book by Gary Paulsen.
I love this name. This is my cute little cousin's name. :)
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According to Wikipedia, The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (1984) by Chris van Allsburg is a book "consisting of a series of seemingly unrelated, highly detailed images in Van Allsburg's distinctive style."
Well I know someone with the last name Harris, but obviously there are a lot of first names derived from last names. This is kind of a cool name, I can see it on all ages too. And Harry is a good nickname as well. I also knew a dog named Haras, which is Sarah spelled backwards in honor of a family member.
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Harris Ranch is California's largest beef producer. It's located off of Interstate 5 (near Coalinga, in Central California). It has a nice restaurant with foods that they've grown there and a gift shop with the same concept. The restrooms are awesome, they have the best smelling soap and they have a special little kid stall for, well, little kids. They also have a hotel there, and I'm pretty sure there's a pool, too. It totally stinks there, though, from the cows. There's always the issue of humane practices, which I'm not willing to delve into at the moment (it does look pretty bad there, though, driving by).
I very much like this name, though I can't fathom why. I don't know; it just always sounded so mysterious and much more unique than Harry. I would use this on a child.