# Haruna (name)

Haruna is both a feminine Japanese given name and a Japanese surname.

## Written forms

Haruna can be written using different kanji characters and can mean:
* 春菜, "spring, vegetable"
* 春奈, "spring, Nara"
* 春南, "spring, south"
* 春名, "spring, name"
* 治南, "govern, south"
* 晴成, "bright, successful"
* 遥南, "long ago, south"
* 治成, "reign, to become"
* 晴名, "bright, name"
* 張馳, "stretch, run, gallop"
The name can also be written in hiragana (はるな) or katakana (ハルナ).

## People with the name
### Given name

* Haruna Asami (浅見 八瑠奈, born 1988), Japanese judoka
* Haruna Fukuoka (福岡 春菜, born 1974), Japanese table tennis player
* Haruna Hosoya (細谷 はるな, born 1973), Japanese athlete
* Haruna Ikezawa (池澤 春菜, born 1975), Japanese actress
* Haruna Iikubo (飯窪 春菜, born 1994), Japanese actress
* Haruna Ishikawa (石川 晴菜, born 1994), Japanese alpine skier
* Haruna Kawaguchi (川口 春奈, born 1995), Japanese actress and model
* Haruna Kojima (小嶋 陽菜, born 1988), Japanese entertainer
* Haruna Kuboyama (久保 晴菜, born 1996), Japanese sprinter
* Haruna Lee, Japanese Taiwanese American theatre maker and writer
* Haruna Matsumoto (松本 遥奈, born 1993), Japanese snowboarder
* Haruna Miyake (三宅 榛名, born 1942), Japanese pianist and composer
* Haruna Ogata (尾形 春水, born 1999), Japanese idol and singer
* Haruna Okuno (奥野 春菜, born 1999), Japanese sport wrestler
* Haruna Sakakibara (榊原 春奈, born 1994), Japanese rower
* Haruna Suzuki (鈴木 春奈, born 1997), Japanese figure skater
* Haruna Yabuki (矢吹 春奈, born 1984), Japanese entertainer
* Haruna Yoneyama (米山 知奈, born 1991), Japanese ice hockey player

### Surname

* Ai Haruna (はるな 愛, born 1972), Japanese transgender television personality and singer
* Ami Haruna (春名 愛海, born 1984), Japanese model and actress
* Fūka Haruna (春名 風花, born 2001), Japanese child actress
* Luna Haruna (春奈 るな, born 1991), Japanese singer and fashion model
* Masahito Haruna (春名 真仁, born 1973), Japanese ice hockey player
* Masaki Haruna (春名 真樹, born 1970), better known as Klaha, Japanese singer-songwriter
* Mika Haruna (春名 美佳, born 1978), Japanese swimmer

## Fictional characters
### Given name

* Haruna, a character in the manga series Aoki Hagane no Arpeggio
* Haruna (ハルナ), a character in the light novel series Kore wa Zombie Desu ka?
* Haruna (榛名), a character in the manga series Onsen Yōsei Hakone-chan
* Haruna (Tenchi Muyo!), a character in the anime film Tenchi Forever! The Movie
* Haruna, a character in the manga series The World of Narue
* Haruna Kisaragi, a character in the anime and manga series Corrector Yui
* Haruna Morikawa, a character in the television series Kousoku Sentai Turboranger
* Haruna Otonashi, a character in the video game Inazuma Eleven
* Haruna Otoo (音尾 春菜), a character in the manga series Working!!
* Haruna Sairenji, a character in the manga series To Love-Ru
* Haruna Sakurada, a character in the manga series Sailor Moon
* Haruna Saotome, a character in the manga series Negima! Magister Negi Magi
* Haruna Yuki (悠木 陽菜), a character in the visual novel Fortune Arterial
* Haruna Kurodate (黒舘 ハルナ), a character in the role-playing video game Blue Archive
* Haruna Wakazato, a male character from The Idolmaster SideM

### Surname

* Hiroko Haruna (春名 ヒロ子), a character in the manga series Hamtaro
* Yuu Haruna (榛名 優), protagonist of the manga series Fuuka
* Motoki Haruna (榛名元希), a character in the manga series Big Windup!