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Haruka

Girls' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Haruka has been given to 466 babies in the U.S. since 1983. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2003, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Haruka, 2024

1 in 557,000

Haruka over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haruka: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Haruka means

Haruka is documented with more than one possible Japanese character combination. The Latin-letter spelling records a pronunciation; it does not specify one unique kanji spelling or one universal meaning.

Possible character meanings include distant, remote.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Haruka is used in Japanese.

Another recorded pronunciation is /hä.ɾɯᵝ.kä/ for Haruka.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 466 girls were recorded with the name Haruka between 1983 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2003; its best national rank was #5,089 in 1994.

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.

How common is Haruka?

Haruka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haruka sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haruka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harukas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haruka was born before 2003 — so the typical Haruka is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
59.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
466
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2000s — 35.4% of all recorded uses (165).

Is Haruka 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2003 (24)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,089
1994

Spellings of Haruka

Haruka is not the most common spelling — Arika is, with 24.5% against Haruka's 4.6%.

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 Haruka is used

Across 1910–2025, Haruka was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 294,012 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 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. Haruka has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haruka around the world

Where Haruka 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
    1996–2013
    #3,536
    in 2013
  • France
    2002–2002
    #4,421
    in 2002

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

Haruka by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,089
1994
Peak year
2003
24 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
466
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Haruka

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

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Sibling names for Haruka

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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