Haruna (はるな, ハルナ) is a feminine Japanese given name and surname.
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, Nara"
治南, "govern, south"
晴成, "bright, successful"
春菜, "springtime, vegetable"
春南, "springtime, south"
遥南, "long ago, south"
治成, "reign, to become"
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.
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
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, a humanoid character in the science fiction anime series The World of Narue
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.
