Aaron
14,733 people in the United States were counted with the surname Aaron in the 2020 census, making it the 2,412th most common in the country. That is about one person in 20,300.
By the numbers
- People
- 14,733
- Rank
- 2,412th
- How common
- 1 in 20,300
- Per 100,000
- 4.9
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
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.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Aaron described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Aaron
- Hank Aaron (1934–2021)American baseball player
- Caroline Aaron (born 1952)American actress
- Quinton Aaron (born 1984)American actor
- Manuel Aaron (born 1935)Indian chess player
- Lee Aaron (born 1962)Canadian rock singer
- Victor Aaron (1956–1996)American actor
- Daniel Aaron (1912–2016)American writer and academic who helped found the Library of America
- Jonne Aaron (born 1983)Finnish singer
People named Aaron with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Also a first name
Aaron has been given to 618,857 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1989. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.