Haruo
Haruo was last recorded in 1937, when 5 babies were given it; 376 Americans have been recorded with it between 1912 and 1937 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Haruo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Haruo mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Haruo is “a male given name from Japanese.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Haruo?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,750, in 1937; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
32 babies in 1921, the peak
Haruo peaked in 1921, when 32 boys were given it, #1,307 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1937 | 5 | #3,750 | 4.7 |
| 1935 | 5 | #3,880 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 8 | #2,833 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 13 | #2,035 | 13.1 |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,243 | 11.5 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,253 | 11.5 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,007 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 9 | #2,837 | 8.4 |
| 1928 | 10 | #2,737 | 9.0 |
| 1927 | 18 | #1,909 | 16.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1926 | 15 | #2,123 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 21 | #1,705 | 18.8 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,431 | 24.7 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,716 | 19.2 |
| 1922 | 19 | #1,848 | 17.5 |
| 1921 | 32 | #1,307 | 29.1 |
| 1920 | 28 | #1,403 | 26.3 |
| 1919 | 26 | #1,424 | 26.5 |
| 1918 | 22 | #1,624 | 21.7 |
| 1917 | 17 | #1,855 | 18.4 |
| 1916 | 14 | #2,089 | 15.7 |
| 1915 | 14 | #2,017 | 16.5 |
| 1914 | 7 | #2,768 | 10.7 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,691 | 11.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Haruo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Haruo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Haruo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Haruo, and how old are they?
An estimated 6 Americans named Haruo 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 140 people named Haruo (0 women and girls, 140 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 23 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6.1 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 Haruo born?
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 251 | not ranked | 164.5× |
| California | 55 | not ranked | 4.6× |
Where Haruo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Haruo is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1912 it was given 164.5 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 boys’ 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 Haruo 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 427,747 babies since 1880, Haruo is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 395 babies recorded by SSA was a Haruo (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Haruo
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 Haruo and names like it
- Compare Haruo and HarryBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sHaruo peaked in 1921.
- Hawaii’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Haruo since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Haruo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Haruo.
- Names starting with HMost given first.