Haruko
Haruko was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 680 Americans have been recorded with it between 1908 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haruko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haruko mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haruko is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Borrowed from Japanese はるこ (Haruko).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haruko?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,972, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
59 babies in 1919, the peak
Haruko peaked in 1919, when 59 girls were given it, #919 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #17,972 | 2.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,958 | 5.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,582 | 6.6 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,513 | 6.7 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,627 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,596 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,981 | 8.9 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,292 | 13.1 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,479 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,598 | 10.7 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 24 | #1,611 | 21.5 |
| 1928 | 13 | #2,548 | 11.3 |
| 1927 | 29 | #1,533 | 24.3 |
| 1926 | 34 | #1,368 | 28.7 |
| 1925 | 32 | #1,451 | 26.3 |
| 1924 | 37 | #1,340 | 29.6 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,913 | 17.4 |
| 1922 | 44 | #1,163 | 36.6 |
| 1921 | 39 | #1,244 | 31.6 |
| 1920 | 29 | #1,527 | 24.2 |
| 1919 | 59 | #919 | 52.2 |
| 1918 | 48 | #1,049 | 41.5 |
| 1917 | 35 | #1,225 | 32.4 |
| 1916 | 31 | #1,309 | 29.7 |
| 1915 | 35 | #1,158 | 35.6 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,280 | 31.5 |
| 1913 | 19 | #1,329 | 30.4 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,567 | 23.3 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,057 | 16.7 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,262 | 15.1 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,063 | 17.3 |
| 1908 | 5 | #2,254 | 15.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Haruko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Haruko has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Haruko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haruko, and how old are they?
An estimated 26 Americans named Haruko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 594 people named Haruko (586 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 68 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8.7 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).
Where are babies named Haruko born?
The states with the most babies named Haruko are Hawaii, California and Washington, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii and Washington are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 388 | not ranked | 144.4× |
| California | 149 | not ranked | 7.5× |
| Washington | 13 | not ranked | 1.9× |
Where Haruko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Haruko is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1910 it was given 144.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Haruko with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 1,255 babies since 1880, Haruko is the most given (54% of them).
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 Haruko
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 Haruko and names like it
- Compare Haruko and HarukaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sHaruko peaked in 1919.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haruko since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Haruko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Haruko.
- Names starting with HMost given first.