Haruna (given name)

Haruna
Haruna Ono, a Japanese musician and the lead singer of Scandal
Pronunciation	HAH-roo-nah
Gender	Female
Origin
Word/name	Japanese
Meaning	Different meanings depending on the kanji used
Region of origin	Japan

Haruna (はるな, ハルナ) is a feminine Japanese given name and surname.

Possible writings

The name Haruna can be written using different kanji characters and can also be written using the katakana or hiragana writing systems. Some possible variations of the name include:

• 春奈, "springtime, apple tree"
• 治南, "govern, south"
• 晴成, "bright, successful"
• 春菜, "springtime, vegetable"
• 春南, "springtime, south"
• 遥南, "long ago, south"
• 治成, "govern successful
• 晴名, "bright, name"
• 張馳, "stretch, run, gallop"
• 春名, "spring, name"　

One popular way to write the name Haruna is by combining any of the following kanji characters, 晴, 遥, 春, with the kanji character, 菜. The first three characters; 晴 meaning "clear up", 遥 meaning "far off, distant", and 春 meaning "spring", are all characters that can make up the syllable for Haru while the character 菜 means "vegetables" or "greens", and is the syllable for na.

People

• Ai Haruna (はるな 愛, born 1972), Japanese transsexual TV personality and singer
• Haruna Abubakar (1952-2005), a Nigerian politician for the People's Democratic Party
• Haruna Asami (浅見 八瑠奈, born 1988), Japanese female judoka
• Haruna Babangida (born 1982), a Nigerian football player
• Haruna Hosoya (細谷 はるな, born 1973), Japanese athlete who mainly competes in the triathlon
• Haruna Iddrisu (born 1970), Member of Parliament for Tamale South and the Minister of Trade and Industry in Ghana.
• Haruna Ishola (unknown-1983), Nigerian musician
• Haruna Ikezawa (池澤 春菜, born 1975), a Greek-born Japanese voice actress
• Haruna Iikubo (飯窪 春菜, born 1994), former model and current 10th generation member of J-pop group Morning Musume
• Haruna Kawaguchi (川口 春奈, born 1995, Japanese actress and model
• Haruna Kojima (小嶋陽菜, born 1988), Japanese idol, and member of all-girl J-pop group AKB48
• Haruna Ono (小野春菜, born 1988), Japanese lead singer and rhythm guitarist of Scandal
• Halna real name Haruna Hamada (born 1980), Japanese singer
• Lukman Haruna (born 1990), Nigerian football player
• Haruna Yabuki (矢吹 春奈, born 1984), Japanese gravure idol, actress, and TV personality
• Haruna Yukawa (湯川 遥菜, 1972-2015), Japanese male aid worker

Characters

• Haruna (Tenchi Muyo!), a villain from Tenchi Muyo in Love 2 (Tenchi Forever!)
• Haruna Kisaragi, a character, and the best friend of Yui Kasuga, in the anime and manga series Corrector Yui
• Haruna Sairenji, a character from the manga To-LOVE-Ru
• Haruna Sakurada, Usagi Tsukino's junior high school teacher a character from the anime and manga Sailor Moon
• Haruna Saotome, a character from Negima
• Haruna Morikawa, The Pink Ranger from the 1989 Super Sentai Series Turboranger
• Haruna, a character in Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
• Haruna Otonashi is a manager for the soccer club of Raimon, and later for Inazuma Japan.
• Haruna, a character from the manga and anime series Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio. She is a personification of the Fleet of Fog battleship Haruna, her avatar being that of a blond girl with pigtails and a large coat that covers her up to her nose.