Haruko
The girl's name Haruko has been in the national records since 1908, with 680 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2010. About 30 Harukos are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 91.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Haruko
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 680
- Estimated living today
- 30
- Median age today
- 91
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 917th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1908
How old the living Harukos are
born that year still alive today
Of the 680 babies given the name since 1908, about 30 are alive — 4 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1934 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Japanese
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Harukos
- Haruko Momoi (born 1977)Japanese singer, songwriter and voice actress
- Haruko Sugimura (1906–1997)Japanese actress
- Haruko Obokata (born 1983)Japanese stem-cell researcher
People named Haruko with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Haruko is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Haruko is most concentrated in Hawaii (227.6×), California (2.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular girls’ names the year Haruko peaked:
Related names
Haruko against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.