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Haruto

#5,953 in 2025Boys' name

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Haruto has been given to 280 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #5,953 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 22 recorded.

Babies named Haruto, 2025

1 in 221,000

Haruto over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Haruto: meaning, origin, and history

Japanese name; meaning depends on kanji

Japanese

What Haruto means

Haruto 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 light, sun, male, distant, remote, clear weather, soar, fly.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 280 boys were recorded with the name Haruto between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 22 in 2014; its best national rank was #3,924 in 1925.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,925 in 2020 to #5,953 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,591 in 2015 to #5,953 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 Haruto?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,953
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Haruto 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Haruto. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Harutos were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
50.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
97.9%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
274
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2010s — 50.7% of all recorded uses (142).

Is Haruto 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
+3,352
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,972
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−362
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.2%
Peak was 2014 (22)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,924
1925

Spellings of Haruto

Haruto is not the most common spelling — Hart is, with 48.0% against Haruto's 11.1%.

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 Haruto is used

Across 1910–2025, Haruto was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 512,727 across all states with data.

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

Haruto around the world

Where Haruto 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
    2014–2014
    #4,632
    in 2014
  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #2,905
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    2009–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Haruto by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,953
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,972
Best rank ever
#3,924
1925
Peak year
2014
22 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
280
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Haruto

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

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Sibling names for Haruto

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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