Hiruni
Origin
Sinhala
Syllables
3
Peak era
Rare
Today
▬ Steady
Meaning
of the sun (Sinhala hiru, sun); the sunny counterpart to Sanduni in the moon, a pairing Sinhala parents of the 1990s and 2000s loved for sisters
Popularity, 1890–2024
1890srare in US records2020s
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Hiruni has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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