Haruka is a female first name.
Recently, the name Haruka has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Haruka. That means that a girl named Haruka is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Haruka.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Haruka. Girls named Haruka have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 4,551 Haruka ranked higher than ever before in 1994. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Haruka has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Haruka only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Haruka was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
If you ever wanted to meet a girl or a woman named Haruka, you have limited options – because girls with this beautiful name are currently living in California and New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if tehre are at least five people with that name living there – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Haruka living in one state or another (if your name is Haruka and you live outside of California and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know, so we can refine our statistics even further). Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 196,223 girls and women would turn around if you called out the name Haruka. So, if your name is Haruka it is very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Haruka already makes you special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter H is quite rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 1.7% of all common girls' names in the US begin with H. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With six letters, the name Haruka is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 1.7% of all girls' names begin with an H, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Interesting detail: of all the names that begin with an H, Helen is the most common.
If your name is Haruka and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Haruka, you can simply say:
Hat
Apple
Rocket
Unicorn
Koala
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Haruka
Haruka
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
H
A
R
U
K
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
H
A
R
U
K
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Haruka sounds like this:
