Haruna
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Haruna is a given name, most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is the 62nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Aaron, brother of Moses.
- NGNigeria1 in 946◐
- TZTanzania1 in 17K
- GHGhana1 in 30K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈654 ●
- Sources
- 97 ●
- 1 in 397K ◐
across 7 countries
115K records
Official registry-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
Aaron, brother of Moses
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | #62 | 76,992 | 111K rec. | — | listed | Haruna | 97 |
| TZ Tanzania | #903 | 788 | 554 rec. | — | 2 | Haruna | 23 |
| GH Ghana | #305 | 574 | 669 rec. | — | — | Haruna | 34 |
| US United States | — | 264 | 1.4K rec. | 1 in 1.3M | 269 | Haruna | 81 |
| AU Australia | — | 263 | 277 rec. | — | — | Haruna | 22 |
| BR Brazil | — | 228△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 929K | 228 | Haruna | 2 |
| KE Kenya | — | 228 | 0 rec. | — | — | Haruna | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 126△ | 35 rec. | 1 in 397K | 126 | Haruna | 19 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 116 | 243 rec. | — | — | Haruna | 49 |
| DE Germany | — | 84 | 151 rec. | — | 1 | Haruna | 36 |
| IN India | — | 51 | 43 rec. | — | 6 | Haruna | 12 |
| SE Sweden | — | 20△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 510K | 20 | — | 2 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English80K38%
- Swahili45K21%
- Japanese38K18%
- Indonesian11K5%
- Arabic8.8K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 80,023 | 38% |
| Swahili | 44,741 | 21% |
| Japanese | 37,696 | 18% |
| Indonesian | 10,983 | 5% |
| Arabic | 8,755 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Haruna is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Arabic, Aaron/Hārūn
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
In Hausa, Aaron (biblical character)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1924 | 1 |
| 1936 | 1 |
| 1937 | 1 |
| 1939 | 2 |
| 1942 | 1 |
| 1945 | 1 |
| 1946 | 3 |
| 1947 | 3 |
| 1951 | 2 |
| 1952 | 1 |
| 1953 | 3 |
| 1954 | 1 |
| 1956 | 4 |
| 1957 | 5 |
| 1958 | 6 |
| 1959 | 5 |
| 1960 | 3 |
| 1961 | 10 |
| 1962 | 6 |
| 1963 | 8 |
| 1964 | 16 |
| 1965 | 9 |
| 1966 | 14 |
| 1967 | 11 |
| 1968 | 10 |
| 1969 | 15 |
| 1970 | 14 |
| 1971 | 12 |
| 1972 | 15 |
| 1973 | 10 |
| 1974 | 12 |
| 1975 | 8 |
| 1976 | 2 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 9 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 10 |
| 1981 | 10 |
| 1982 | 13 |
| 1983 | 12 |
| 1984 | 14 |
| 1985 | 13 |
| 1986 | 10 |
| 1987 | 10 |
| 1988 | 10 |
| 1989 | 12 |
| 1990 | 8 |
| 1991 | 11 |
| 1992 | 12 |
| 1993 | 14 |
| 1994 | 6 |
| 1995 | 9 |
| 1996 | 3 |
| 1997 | 2 |
IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 54 years between 1924–1997. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Harun Farockib. 1944DEnot in their usual nameGerman filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film (1944–2014)
- Haruna Ikezawab. 1975JPJapanese actress, voice actress and singer
- Haruna Mimab. 1982JPJapanese voice actress
- Haruna Amanob. 1983JPJapanese seiyū
- Haruna Momonob. 1987JPJapanese seiyū
- Haruna Kojimab. 1988JPJapanese business manager, fashion model, YouTuber
- Harun Tekinb. 1989TRnot in their usual nameTurkish association football player (born 1989)
- Haruna Kawashimab. 1993JPJapanese association football player
- Haruna Iikubob. 1994JPJapanese actress and singer
- Haruna Kawaguchib. 1995JPJapanese actress and model
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 45 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 269 | #76,963 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 264 | #25,961 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 228 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 221 | #23,146 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 126 | #13,142 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 125 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 121 | #138,304 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 103 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 100 | #7,385 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 98 | #25,961 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 92 | — |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 60 | #39,425 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 142 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Haruna?
- We estimate roughly 654 people bear Haruna (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Haruna have the most bearers?
- Haruna is most frequently recorded in Nigeria, where it is most often spelled haruna.
- How common is Haruna compared with other names?
- In Nigeria, Haruna is the 62nd most common given name of 146,224 given names recorded there.
- Is Haruna a male or female name?
- Haruna is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Haruna mean?
- Recorded meaning: Aaron, brother of Moses
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Haruna” — the 62nd most common given name in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.