Haru
Haru is given to both girls and boys: 14 girls and 29 boys were given it in 2025 (#7,616 among girls’ names and #3,793 among boys’, #6,229 among all names counting both); 503 Americans have been recorded with it since 1914 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haru by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haru mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haru is “a Japanese unisex given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haru?
#3,793 among boys’ names, 2025
Haru rose from #5,822 in 2015 to #3,793 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 17.0 per million.
47 babies in 2023, the peak
Haru peaked in 2023, when 47 babies were given it (28 boys, #3,927 among boys’ names). The 43 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 91% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,616 | 29 | #3,793 |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,746 | 20 | #4,939 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,252 | 28 | #3,927 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,089 | 28 | #3,924 |
| 2021 | 12 | #8,673 | 23 | #4,411 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,699 | 19 | #4,914 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,878 | 17 | #5,410 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 14 | #6,141 | |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,027 | 20 | #4,805 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,148 | 14 | #6,144 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 6 | #15,184 | 15 | #5,822 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,315 | 13 | #6,427 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,337 | 10 | #7,718 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 7 | #10,083 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 6 | #11,339 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 12 | #6,816 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 10 | #7,890 | |
| 2007 | under 5 | 6 | #11,423 | |
| 2006 | under 5 | 6 | #11,136 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 10 | #7,306 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 5 | #11,515 | |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,634 | under 5 | |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,332 | under 5 | |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,445 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,296 | under 5 | |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,124 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 6 | #3,975 | under 5 | |
| 1914 | 5 | #3,863 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Haru a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 503 Americans recorded as Haru, 38% are girls and 62% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Haru: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haru, and how old are they?
An estimated 462 Americans named Haru and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 11. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 387 people named Haru (172 women and girls, 215 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 233 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 427,747 babies since 1880, Haru is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 395 babies (11%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Haru
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Haru and names like it
- Compare Haru and HarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHaru peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haru since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Haru.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Haru alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.