Aaron

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Aaron boys named Aaron

By the numbers

Total US births

618,857

Estimated living today

566,000

Median age today

34

Peak year

1989

Best rank

31st

Rank in 2025

80th

First recorded

1880

Girls / boys

4,395 / 614,462

How old the living Aarons are

born that year still alive today

Of the 618,857 babies given the name since 1880, about 566,000 are alive — 91 in every hundred. Roughly 114,000 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1991 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where the name comes from

Origin Hebrew

From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών, from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן, of unknown meaning, possibly meaning “bearer of martyrs”, or perhaps also, or instead, related to the Ancient Egyptian ꜥḥꜣ rw (“warrior lion”), though it has been suggested to also mean “elevated”, “exalted” or “high mountain”.

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Notable Aarons

• Aaron Swartz (1986–2013)American computer programmer and internet-political activist
• Aaron Burr (1756–1836)vice president of the United States from 1801 to 1805, lived
• Aaron Ramsey (born 1990)Welsh association football player
• Aaron Klug (1926–2018)British chemist and biophysicist
• Aaron Ciechanover (born 1947)Israeli physician and biochemist, Nobel Laureate
• Aaron Eckhart (born 1968)American actor
• Aaron Copland (1900–1990)American composer, composition teacher, writer, and conductor
• Aaron Paul (born 1979)American actor

People named Aaron with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Aaron is most common

• CA82,621
• TX55,574
• NY34,663
• OH30,248
• IL26,416
• MI25,281
• PA23,944
• FL23,115
• IN17,303
• NC15,457

Relative to how many babies each state records, Aaron is most concentrated in Alaska (2.1×), Nevada (1.8×), Hawaii (1.6×), Oregon (1.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1989

The most popular boys’ names the year Aaron peaked:

• Michael
• Christopher
• Matthew
• Joshua
• David
• Daniel

All the names of 1989

Aaron elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Aaron: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Aaron is most concentrated in Nidwalden, where 0.39% of children were given it – 35 of them.

Aaron: rank by region

In 2025, Aaron was given 5 times or more in 3 regions of Belgium.

In 2015, Aaron was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2023, Aaron was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.

In 2025, Aaron was given 2 times or more in 7 regions of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Aaron appears in the lists for Province of Liège (35th), Province of Hainaut (42nd), Province of Flemish Brabant (52nd), Brussels-Capital Region (53rd), Province of West Flanders (84th), Province of East Flanders (153rd) and Province of Antwerp (290th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Italy after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Aaron by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Aaron among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Aaron lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 33,716 men called Aaron were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Aarav
• Aarya
• Aarush
• Aarna
• Aaryn
• Aaryan
• Aaralyn
• Aarron
• Aarin
• Aariz
• Aaren
• Aariv

Aaron against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Aaron vs Aarav
• Aaron vs Aarya
• Aaron vs Aarush
• Aaron vs Aarna
• Aaron vs Aaryn
• Aaron vs Aaryan

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