Haroun
given name · Latin script
Meaning: The leading figures of the Daraawiish (such as commanders, governors, representatives, judges etc.)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/aʁun/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Haroun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Chad than in any other country, where it is the 9th most common given name.
- DZAlgeria≈1 in 6.1K(inferred from the name graph)
- TDChad≈1 in 721
- TNTunisia≈1 in 6.2K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Chad (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 721 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Chad, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
The leading figures of the Daraawiish (such as commanders, governors, representatives, judges etc.) considered collectively.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Haroun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TD Chad | #9 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 721 | 2 | Haroun | 24 |
| DZ Algeria | #364 | ≈7,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | listed | Haroun | 35 |
| TZ Tanzania | — | ≈4,800 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Haroun | 13 |
| AF Afghanistan | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Haroun | 3 |
| TN Tunisia | #332 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 2.8K | Haroun | 29 |
| CM Cameroon | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 18K | — | Haroun | 3 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,232 | 1 in 41K | 1.2K | — | 18 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INS Tunisia — Les prénoms des nouveau-nés les plus populaires (2022); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); the dz-kaggle-names register; Statistics on popular names in Chad published on Students of the World.. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Haroun 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 English, Arabic; form of Aaron
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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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Harun al-Rashidb. 766IRnot in their usual name5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
- Al-Wathiqb. 812SAnot in their usual name9th Abbasid Caliph (r. 812–847)
- Harun ibn Khumarawayhb. 882EGnot in their usual nameTulunid Emir of Egypt from 896 to 904
- Haroun Tazieffb. 1914FRFrench volcanologist, geologist (1914-1998)
- Harun Hashim Rashidb. 1927PSnot in their usual namePalestinian poet
- Harun Osmanoğlub. 1932TRnot in their usual nameOttoman noble (born 1932)
- Haroun Kabadib. 1949TDChadian politician
- Harounb. 1986FRFrench humorist
- Haroun YashayaeiIRJewish activist
- Harun MarufSOnot in their usual nameSomali journalist
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 55 sources across 32 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 120 | #24,249 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 120 | #24,100 |
| DZ Algeria | Algerian names (Kaggle, MIT) | — | — | — |
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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Haroun?
- A machine transcription gives /aʁun/ (IPA) for French.
- Where does the name Haroun come from?
- The leading figures of the Daraawiish (such as commanders, governors, representatives, judges etc.) considered collectively. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Haroun?
- In the etymology graph, Aaron, Harun and Aron are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Haroun a male or female name?
- Haroun 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 Haroun mean?
- Recorded meaning: The leading figures of the Daraawiish (such as commanders, governors, representatives, judges etc.)
- In which country does Haroun have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Haroun in Chad, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haroun.
- How common is the name Haroun?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,232 people named Haroun, about 1 in 41 thousand residents.
- How common is Haroun compared with other names?
- In Chad, Haroun is the 9th most common given name of 250 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/harounThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Haroun” — the 9th most common given name in Chad. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.