Baron

At the 2020 census, 15,523 Americans bore the surname Baron — 2,288th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 19,300.

By the numbers

People: 15,523
Rank: 2,288th
How common: 1 in 19,300
Per 100,000: 5.2

Where the name comes from

Origin French

As a French, English, Jewish, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Czech, German, Spanish (Barón), Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Breton surname, all from the noun baron. Compare Barron, Lebaron.

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

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Baron described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 77.8%
Hispanic or Latino 13.1%
Black, not Hispanic 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 2.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.1%

Notable people called Baron

Enrique Barón Crespo (born 1944)Spanish politician, economist, and lawyer
Rafael Arnaiz Barón (1911–1938)Spanish saint of the Roman Catholic Church
Fanya Baron (1887–1921)Russian anarchist
Bengt Baron (born 1962)Swedish swimmer
Joey Baron (born 1955)American avant-garde jazz drummer
Billy Baron (born 1990)American basketball player
Marie Baron (1908–1948)Dutch swimmer
Devorah Baron (1887–1956)Jewish writer, editor and translator

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

Surnames like Baron

Also a first name

Baron has been given to 7,059 American babies as a first name since 1912, peaking in 2008. 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.