Harun
Harun was given to 47 boys in 2025, #2,729 among boys’ names; 1,030 Americans have been recorded with it since 1967 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,020 Americans named Harun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Harun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Harun mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Harun is “an Arabic male given name from Arabic, equivalent to English Aaron.”
From Arabic هَارُون (hārūn). Doublet of Aaron.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Harun?
#2,729 among boys’ names, 2025
Harun rose from #2,733 in 2015 to #2,729 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 27.5 per million.
63 babies in 2022, the peak
Harun peaked in 2022, when 63 boys were given it, #2,278 among boys’ names. The 47 births of 2025 are 75% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 47 | #2,729 | 27.5 |
| 2024 | 61 | #2,324 | 35.4 |
| 2023 | 55 | #2,450 | 32.2 |
| 2022 | 63 | #2,278 | 36.1 |
| 2021 | 50 | #2,598 | 28.6 |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,373 | 32.4 |
| 2019 | 41 | #2,960 | 22.9 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,720 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 42 | #2,858 | 22.7 |
| 2016 | 51 | #2,488 | 26.9 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,733 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,407 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,080 | 19.0 |
| 2012 | 38 | #3,017 | 20.0 |
| 2011 | 29 | #3,632 | 15.3 |
| 2010 | 35 | #3,195 | 18.2 |
| 2009 | 28 | #3,754 | 14.1 |
| 2008 | 20 | #4,790 | 9.8 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,933 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,714 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 18 | #4,697 | 9.0 |
| 2004 | 15 | #5,342 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,878 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 20 | #4,085 | 10.3 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,793 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,048 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 17 | #4,213 | 8.9 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,492 | 4.7 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,798 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 5 | #9,534 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 10 | #5,610 | 5.2 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,002 | 3.1 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,740 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,423 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,160 | 3.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,083 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 7 | #4,336 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #5,269 | 3.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #4,129 | 4.0 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,710 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Harun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Harun has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Harun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Harun, and how old are they?
1,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,030 Americans ever recorded as Harun. The median Harun alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,159 people named Harun (10 women and girls, 1,149 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 702 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 38 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 26 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 332 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 618 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,119 babies since 1880, Harun is the second most given (33% of them). In 2025 it was given to 47 of their 172 babies (27%), again the second most given.
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 Harun
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 Harun and names like it
- Compare Harun and HaroonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sHarun peaked in 2022.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Harun since 1910.
- Arabic namesWiktionary’s origin for Harun: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Harun.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Harun alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with HMost given first.