Given name
Haruko
“the firstborn child”
Haruko is used as a given name. One Japanese interpretation is “the firstborn child.”
Original Japanese遥子
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Japanese interpretation is “the firstborn child.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Japanese.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1908. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Haruko through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 680
- 0 boys · 680 girls
- Most popular year
- 1919
- 59 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2010. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 59 in 1919. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 594 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.
Haruko’s family of names
Haruko has a related form in Haru. In Japanese usage, Haruko is a Roman-alphabet rendering of はるこ. In French usage, Haruko was borrowed from the Japanese form はるこ.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 9
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 遥子original script · Japanese
- 陽子original script · Japanese
- 知子original script · Japanese
- 温子original script · Japanese
- はるこoriginal script · Japanese
- 美子original script · Japanese
- 晴子original script · Japanese
- 春子original script · Japanese
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People named Haruko
- Empress ShōkenJapanese empress (1849-1914)
- Haruko MomoiJapanese singer, songwriter and voice actress (born 1977)
- Haruko SugimuraJapanese actress (1909–1997)1906–1997
- Haruko ObokataJapanese stem-cell researcher (born 1983)
- Haruko SagaraJapanese singerborn 1968
- Haruko KatoJapanese actress (1922-2015)
- Haruko ArimuraJapanese politicianborn 1970
- Haruko Matsudabadminton playerborn 1972
- Fujita HarukoJapanese pianist, music critic, teacher, and jurist1918–2001
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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