Haru — #4997 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Haru

The Social Security Administration has registered 283 babies named Haru between 2003 and 2024, spanning 22 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Haru currently holds the #4997 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 28 babies received it in a single year. Haru is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 177 additional births since 1914.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Haru performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 128 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Haru shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 43 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Haru in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Haru in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 283 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.