Given name
Koharu
Koharu is a feminine given name from Japanese. It is used in English and Portuguese.
Original Japanese香春
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2004. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Koharu through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 45
- 0 boys · 45 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 7 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 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 7 in 2011.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Koharu’s family of names
In English usage, Koharu was borrowed from the Japanese form こはる. In Japanese usage, Koharu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 古春. In Japanese usage, Koharu is a Roman-alphabet rendering of 小春.
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 11
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
- 香春original script · Japanese
- 湖春original script · Japanese
- 恋春original script · Japanese
- 小花original script · Japanese
- 瑚花original script · Japanese
- 古春original script · Japanese
- 香花original script · Japanese
- こはるoriginal script · Japanese
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People named Koharu
- Koharu KusumiJapanese model, actress, television personality, singer, dancer and voice actressborn 1992
- Koharu YonemotoJapanese badminton playerborn 1990
- Koharu KisaragiJapanese writer (1956-2000)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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