Haru
Haru is a baby name of Japanese origin, meaning Spring; sunlight.
What Haru means
Spring; sunlight.
Haru is short — 4 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Haru comes from
Japanese given names are written in kanji, and the characters chosen carry the meaning as much as the sound does. The same pronunciation can be written several different ways, each shading the sense differently, so parents pick characters as deliberately as they pick the name itself.
Haru is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Haru?
Haru sits outside the top 100 baby names we currently track. For many parents that is the appeal: a name with genuine history behind it that has not been picked up by everyone at once.
The character of Haru
We group Haru under light and brightness and the natural world — an unusual pairing, and often the reason a name feels the way it does. Each theme opens a full list of names sharing it.
Names like Haru
These share Haru's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Hotaru — Firefly.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Aurora — Dawn; goddess of sunrise.
- Daisy — The day's-eye flower.
- Summer — The warm, bright season.
- Hinata — Sunny place; toward the sun.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Haruka — Distant; spring.
- Haruto — Sun flying; soaring.
- Hikaru — Light, radiance.
- Himari — Facing the sun; sunflower.
- Hina — Sun, light.