Given name
Haruka
“far away”
Haruka is a given name from Japanese. It is used in German.
Original Japaneseはるか
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Haruka through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 466
- 0 boys · 466 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 24 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −79%
- Cooling
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 24 in 2003. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 728 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Haruka’s family of names
In German usage, Haruka has a conventional equivalent in the Japanese form はるか. In Japanese usage, Haruka is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 悠. In Japanese usage, Haruka is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 日花.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 15
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Haruka
- Haruka KitaguchiJapanese javelin thrower (1998–)
- Haruka TomatsuJapanese voice actress (born 1990)
- Haruka TachimotoJapanese judokaborn 1990
- Haruka AyaseJapanese actress, model and singerborn 1985
- Haruka KudōJapanese actress and photographer (1999-)
- Haruka FunakuboJapanese judokaborn 1998
- Haruka Uedaswimmerborn 1988
- Haruka ShimazakiJapanese female talent and YouTuberborn 1994
- Haruka ShiraishiJapanese voice actressborn 1995
Characters named Haruka: Sailor Uranus (Sailor Moon).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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