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Haroun

#4,765 in 2025Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Harun

Haroun has been given to 374 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #4,765 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 28 recorded.

Babies named Haroun, 2025

1 in 158,000

Haroun over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haroun: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Harun

Arabic

What Haroun means

Haroun is a alternate transcription of Harun.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Haroun → Harun → Aaron. The family’s proposed meaning is “warrior lion”, recorded in English with the source elements rw.

Origin, language, and formation

Haroun is used in French. Its origins include Arabic.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Harun.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Haroun is pronounced /a.ʁun/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 374 boys were recorded with the name Haroun between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 28 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,916 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,326 in 2020 to #4,765 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,234 in 2015 to #4,765 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Haroun?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,765
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haroun sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haroun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harouns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haroun was born before 2017 — so the typical Haroun is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
374
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Choose a decade

2020s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (143).

Is Haroun rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−849
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+561
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,469
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.91×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
75.0%
Peak was 2023 (28)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,916
2024

Spellings of Haroun

Haroun is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 47.3% against Haroun's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Haroun is used

Across 1910–2025, Haroun was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,618,765 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Haroun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haroun around the world

Where Haroun ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #2,269
    in 2025
  • France
    1966–2025
    #122
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #706
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Haroun by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,765
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 561
Best rank ever
#3,916
2024
Peak year
2023
28 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
374
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Haroun

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Haroun

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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