Haruna

surname · Latin script

Meaning: Aaron, brother of Moses

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Haruna is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Nigeria it is the 24th most common surname.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 398K(measured from records)
  • NONorway1 in 456K
  • ESSpain1 in 834K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

121 people, 2010

Sources
100 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 398K (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Aaron, brother of Moses

Sources 1

  • African Muslim Names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Haruna 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.

Where Haruna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—1211 in 2.7M269Haruna100
ES Spain—601 in 834K126—19
FI Finland—141 in 398K28—3
BE Belgium—131 in 902K13Haruna9
NO Norway—121 in 456K20—4
DK Denmark—51 in 1.2M5——
NG Nigeria#24——listedHaruna98

121 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. 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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Haruna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Indonesian surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Indonesia, Malaysia, Tanzania

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  • Amharic surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, Libya, Saudi Arabia, Ghana

    Languages: Amharic, Arabic, Hebrew

    Also written ሀሩና

57 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1900195020002050Hisaaki Haruna, b. 1907Boni Haruna, b. 1957Ai Haruna, b. 1972Masahito Haruna, b. 1973Mika Haruna, b. 1978Miki Haruna, b. 1984Hana Haruna, b. 1988Lukman Haruna, b. 1990Luna Haruna, b. 1991Fūka Haruna, b. 2001

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(measured from records)

Attested in 45 sources across 26 countries.

Official registers attesting Haruna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020269#76,963
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010121#138,304
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—60#39,425
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—60#39,093
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—14#43,115
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)200813#61,198
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—12#52,187
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5#65,164
US United Stateswru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.)———

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

What does the name Haruna mean, and where does it come from?
Aaron, brother of Moses Recorded by African Muslim Names.
In which country does Haruna have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 121 people named Haruna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled haruna.
Where is Haruna most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Haruna is densest in Finland — about 1 in 398 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Haruna?
In the United States, the national register counted 121 people named Haruna in 2010, about 1 in 2.7 million residents.
How common is Haruna compared with other names?
In Nigeria, Haruna is the 24th most common surname of 346,007 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Haruna” — the 24th most common surname in Nigeria. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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