# Harun (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/harun/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Arabic |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Haroon, Haroun |
| US babies named this | 1,030 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,030 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 845, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Arabic هَارُون (hārūn). Doublet of Aaron.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 29 | 3,633 |
| 2012 | 38 | 3,019 |
| 2013 | 36 | 3,082 |
| 2014 | 32 | 3,409 |
| 2015 | 44 | 2,734 |
| 2016 | 51 | 2,488 |
| 2017 | 42 | 2,859 |
| 2018 | 45 | 2,721 |
| 2019 | 41 | 2,962 |
| 2020 | 56 | 2,374 |
| 2021 | 50 | 2,599 |
| 2022 | 63 | 2,279 |
| 2023 | 55 | 2,451 |
| 2024 | 61 | 2,324 |
| 2025 | 47 | 2,729 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 33 | 878 |
| 2012 | 26 | 1,051 |
| 2013 | 25 | 1,063 |
| 2014 | 27 | 1,035 |
| 2015 | 28 | 1,024 |
| 2016 | 35 | 884 |
| 2017 | 32 | 943 |
| 2018 | 22 | 1,194 |
| 2019 | 29 | 974 |
| 2020 | 31 | 921 |
| 2021 | 34 | 888 |
| 2022 | 37 | 844 |
| 2023 | 51 | 679 |
| 2024 | 53 | 685 |
| 2025 | 42 | 782 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: هَارُون
- Armenian: Հարուն
- German: Harun
- Russian: Хару́н, Гару́н
- Turkish: Harun

## People named Harun

- Harun al-Rashid, 5th Abbasid caliph (r. 786–809)
- Harun Farocki, German filmmaker, author, and lecturer in film (1944–2014)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.