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Harun

#2,729 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Aaron

Harun has been given to 1,030 babies in the U.S. since 1967. In 2025 it ranked #2,729 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Harun, 2025

1 in 70,500

Harun over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Harun: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Aaron

Arabic and Biblical Hebrew

What Harun means

Harun is a form of Aaron.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Origin, language, and formation

Harun is used in English, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Malay, Tagalog and Turkish. Its origins include Arabic and Biblical Hebrew.

Harun comes through Arabic هَارُون.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aaron.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Malay, Harun is pronounced /ˈharun/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,030 boys were recorded with the name Harun between 1967 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 63 in 2022; its best national rank was #2,278 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,373 in 2020 to #2,729 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,733 in 2015 to #2,729 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 Harun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 70,500
47 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 36,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,729
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
48,893 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Harun 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 48,893 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Harun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Haruns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Harun was born before 2015 — so the typical Harun is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
88.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,030
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Choose a decade

2010s — 38.2% of all recorded uses (393).

Is Harun 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
−405
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−356
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.07×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
74.6%
Peak was 2022 (63)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,278
2022

Spellings of Harun

Harun is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 45.3% against Harun's 0.08%.

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 Harun is used

Across 2016–2025, Harun was most concentrated in Minnesota — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 41,317 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in 100,000).

125 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Minnesota1 in 4,000
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Missouri1 in 50,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 50,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 in 100,000

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.

Harun around the world

Where Harun 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
    1996–2025
    #782
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2012–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • France
    1976–2025
    #1,114
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2024
    #1,281
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Harun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,729
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 356
Best rank ever
#2,278
2022
Peak year
2022
63 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,030
Count in 2025
47

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

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