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Haruki

#5,282 in 2025Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Haruki has been given to 349 babies in the U.S. since 1990. In 2025 it ranked #5,282 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 20 recorded.

Babies named Haruki, 2025

1 in 184,000

Haruki over time, 1880–2025

Boys
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haruki: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Haruki means

Haruki 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 clear weather, light, sun, male, brightness, living.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 349 boys were recorded with the name Haruki between 1990 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 20 in 2014; its best national rank was #4,754 in 2014.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,102 in 2020 to #5,282 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,366 in 2015 to #5,282 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.

How common is Haruki?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,282
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haruki 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haruki. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harukis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haruki was born before 2014 — so the typical Haruki is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
42.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
92.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
349
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Choose a decade

2010s — 42.1% of all recorded uses (147).

Is Haruki 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
+4,022
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−180
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+84
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.06×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2014 (20)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,754
2014

Spellings of Haruki

Haruki is not the most common spelling — Harun is, with 45.8% against Haruki's 15.5%.

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 Haruki is used

Across 1910–2025, Haruki was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 305,837 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. Haruki has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haruki around the world

Where Haruki 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
    2006–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2012–2013
    #754
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Haruki by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,282
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 180
Best rank ever
#4,754
2014
Peak year
2014
20 that year
First recorded
1990
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
349
Count in 2025
18

Names similar to Haruki

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

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Sibling names for Haruki

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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