Given name & surname
Haruna
Haruna is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Hausa.
Original Japanese華月
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1991. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Haruna through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 72
- 0 boys · 72 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 13 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 2009. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 2006. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 362 as a first name in 2020; 269 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Haruna’s family of names
In Hausa usage, Haruna has a conventional equivalent in the English form Aaron. In Hausa usage, Haruna has a conventional equivalent in the English form Harun. Haruna has a conventional equivalent in the Kurdish form Harûn.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 6
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Haruna
- Haruna KojimaJapanese business manager, fashion model, YouTuberborn 1988
- Haruna BabangidaNigerian footballerborn 1982
- Haruna IkezawaJapanese actress, voice actress and singerborn 1975
- Haruna IikuboJapanese actress and singerborn 1994
- Haruna IddrisuGhanaian politicianborn 1970
- Haruna KawaguchiJapanese actress and modelborn 1995
- Haruna NiyonzimaRwandan footballerborn 1990
- Haruna MurayamaJapanese freestyle wrestlerborn 1999
- Haruna OgataJapanese singer and dancerborn 1999
Characters named Haruna: Haruna Sairenji (To Love Ru).
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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