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Haruna

Girls' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Haruna has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 2006, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Haruna, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haruna: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Japanese

What Haruna means

Haruna has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Haruna

Haruna 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, distant, remote, spring, vegetables, greens.

A separate documented entry treats Haruna as a form of Harun. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Haruna is used in English and Hausa. Its origins include Japanese.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Aaron.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hausa, Haruna is pronounced /há.rúː.nà/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 girls were recorded with the name Haruna between 1991 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2006; its best national rank was #7,699 in 1995.

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 Haruna?

Haruna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haruna 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haruna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harunas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Haruna was born before 2004 — so the typical Haruna is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
69.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
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2000s — 69.4% of all recorded uses (50).

Is Haruna 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2006 (13)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,699
1995

Spellings of Haruna

Haruna is not the most common spelling — Karina is, with 25.3% against Haruna'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 Haruna is used

Across 1910–2025, Haruna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 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. Haruna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Haruna around the world

Where Haruna 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
    1996–2007
    #5,201
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Haruna 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
#7,699
1995
Peak year
2006
13 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Haruna

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

HarloeHareerHarlenHarvieHarmonHarrisHaramHarveeHarirHarnaazHargunHartlieHarviHarbourHaruyeHarjotHarmanHartfordHarrieHarikaHartHarlinHarmoneiSoluna

Sibling names for Haruna

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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