Haru

Where Haru comes from

The dictionaries list Haru as a given name — a Japanese unisex given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 2003
    First appearance
    #10,894 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2017
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  3. 2025
    Peak, #3,757
    29 babies named Haru — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A Japanese unisex given name.
Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Haru hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.