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Koharu

Girls' name

From Japanese こはる; literal meaning unconfirmed

Koharu has been given to 45 babies in the U.S. since 2004. 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 2011, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Koharu, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Koharu: meaning, origin, and history

From Japanese こはる; literal meaning unconfirmed

Japanese

What Koharu means

Koharu is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Koharu is used in English and Portuguese. Its origins include Japanese.

Koharu comes through Japanese こはる.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Koharu between 2004 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2011; its best national rank was #14,110 in 2011.

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 Koharu?

Koharu 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 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Koharu 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Koharu. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Koharus were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Koharu was born before 2011 — so the typical Koharu is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
45
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.8% of all recorded uses (17).

Is Koharu 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 2011 (7)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#14,110
2011

Spellings of Koharu

Koharu is not the most common spelling — Khari is, with 73.2% against Koharu's 1.7%.

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.

Koharu around the world

Where Koharu 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.

  • South Australia
    2008–2008
    #796
    in 2008

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Koharu 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
#14,110
2011
Peak year
2011
7 that year
First recorded
2004
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Koharu

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

KohaniKohynKohanaKohenAmaruHikaruKohleeHaruCharuKohinoorMaru

Sibling names for Koharu

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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