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Around the globe, ハルカ (Haruka , ハルカ ) is quite a common mostly girly, but seldom male forename. The forename ハルカ is habitual in Japan, where it is quite a rare predominantly girly, but scarcely boy's name, Hong Kong, where it is a rare female name, and Indonesia, where it is a rare epicene name. Measured by absolute frequency, it most frequently occurs in Japan, Indonesia, and the United States. Much more prevalently, ハルカ is the last name as well as the forename.
ハルカ is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Sailor Uranus , the fictional character from Sailor Moon; Haruka Takayama , the fictional character from Sakura Trick; Haruka Haruno , the fictional character from Go! Princess Precure; Haruka Sawamura , the fictional character in the Yakuza video game series, Yakuza 6: The Song of Life and Haruka Tanizawa , the Battle Royale character, among other works.