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Aran

The boy's name Aran has been in the national records since 1969, with 1,001 births to its name. In 2025 it ranked 3,128th. About 970 Arans are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 17.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Aran boys named Aran

By the numbers

Total US births
1,001
Estimated living today
970
Median age today
17
Peak year
2025
Best rank
3,128th
Rank in 2025
3,128th
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
27 / 974

How old the living Arans are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 10 20 30 40 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,001 babies given the name since 1969, about 970 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2008 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 Aran is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Aran is most concentrated in California (6.9×), Texas (2.6×).

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

Names of 2025

The most popular boys’ names the year Aran peaked:

All the names of 2025

Aran elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Aran 1,148 632nd
Spain boys Aran 655 94th
Ireland boys Aran 386 149th
Switzerland boys Aran 85 829th
Scotland boys Aran 70 366th
France boys Aran 60 3,071st
Northern Ireland boys Aran 11 240th
Belgium boys Aran 10 1,363rd

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.

Aran: births by region

RegionCountry Spelling BirthsShare of the region Best rank
German boys Switzerland Aran 78 0.006% 640th
French boys Switzerland Aran 5 0.001% 653rd
Italian boys Switzerland Aran 2 0.003% 179th

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, Aran is most concentrated in Zurich, where 0.01% of children were given it – 27 of them.

Aran: rank by region

In 2010, Aran was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Flanders Aran 871 5

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 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.

Aran by city

CityYears BirthsBest rank
Berlin boys 2017–2023 6 421st

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

Aran 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.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Aran 33 44

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – 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 Aran lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 3,934 men called Aran and 774 women called Aran 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

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Barcelona Aran 2,353 0.807 163
Lleida Aran 166 0.705 189
Girona Aran 286 0.687 185
Tarragona Aran 267 0.609 214
Huesca Aran 32 0.273 301
Teruel Aran 12 0.173 466

Listed in 36 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 16 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Women: the provinces where it is densest

Province Spelling People Per thousand Place there
Lleida Aran 142 0.637 221
Tarragona Aran 80 0.183 546
Barcelona Aran 416 0.137 580
Girona Aran 55 0.133 648
Castellón/Castelló Aran 13 0.041 1,402
Gipuzkoa Aran 8 0.021 1,994

Listed in 8 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 44 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.