Haruka
Haruka is a girl name of Japanese origin, ranked #109 in popularity, meaning Distant; spring.
What Haruka means
Distant; spring.
Haruka sits at 6 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Haruka 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.
Haruka is recorded as Japanese in origin. Browse other Japanese names.
How popular is Haruka?
Haruka is ranked #109, near the outer edge of the top hundred. Names here are often on the way up or on the way down, so this is the band where a name can feel fresh and established at the same time.
The character of Haruka
We group Haruka under the natural world. If that is the quality drawing you to it, the theme link below collects every other name we hold in the same group.
Themes: Nature
Names like Haruka
These share Haruka's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Hana — Flower, blossom.
- Hinoki — Tree.
- Hotaru — Firefly.
- Kaede — Maple leaf.
- Mei — Sprout; bright.
- Midori — Green.
- Sakura — Cherry blossom.
- Yuki — Snow; happiness.
- Akiba — Leaf.
- Ayaha — Leaf.
- Ayuha — Leaf.
- Azuha — Leaf.