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Haru

#3,793 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Light, sun, male

Haru has been given to 503 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #3,793 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 29 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 62% boys, 38% girls all-time.

Babies named Haru, 2025

1 in 114,000

Haru over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Haru over time

In 2025, Haru went to 33% girls and 67% boys.

19142025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Haru: meaning, origin, and history

Light, sun, male

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Haru means

Haru means “light, sun, male”.

Origin, language, and formation

Haru is used in English and Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 312 boys were recorded with the name Haru between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,793 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,914 in 2020 to #3,793 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,822 in 2015 to #3,793 in 2025.

In the United States, 191 girls were recorded with the name Haru between 1914 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2023; its best national rank was #3,863 in 1914.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,699 in 2020 to #7,616 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #15,184 in 2015 to #7,616 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 Haru?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 114,000
29 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 58,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,793
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
79,239 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haru 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 79,239 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haru. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haru was born before 2019 — so the typical Haru is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
47.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
312
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 47.1% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Haru 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
+1,146
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,121
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,029
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.93×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (29)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,793
2025

Spellings of Haru

Haru is not the most common spelling — Mark is, with 34.5% against Haru's <0.01%.

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 Haru is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Haru was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 348,654 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Haru has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Haru is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Haru was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 552,165 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Haru has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haru around the world

Where Haru 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
    2005–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    2013–2025
    #6,010
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2023–2024
    #1,698
    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.

Haru by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,793
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,121
Best rank ever
#3,793
2025
Peak year
2025
29 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
312
Count in 2025
29

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,616
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 83
Best rank ever
#3,863
1914
Peak year
2023
19 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
191
Count in 2025
14

Names similar to Haru

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

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Sibling names for Haru

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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