Haruko

Where Haruko comes from

Borrowed from Japanese はるこ (Haruko).
— Wiktionary's entry for Haruko
  • Japanese
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    Haruko Sugimura born
    Japanese actress
  2. 1908
    First appearance
    #2,101 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1919
    Peak, #917
    59 babies named Haruko — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1920
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,511.
  5. 1977
    Haruko Momoi born
    Japanese singer, songwriter and voice actress
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Japanese.
Namesakes
  • Haruko Momoi · Japanese singer, songwriter and voice actress, born 1977
  • Haruko Sugimura · Japanese actress, 1906–1997
  • Haruko Obokata · Japanese stem-cell researcher, born 1983
  • Haruko Sagara · Japanese singer, born 1968
  • Haruko Katō · Japanese actress, 1922–2015

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.