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“Form of Aaron — uncertain; possibly 'exalted' or 'high mountain'” — Hebrew origin
Boy's name · #711 in the US (2025) · Trending
Aron is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it is ranked #711 in 2025, with about 380 boys given the name last year. Roughly 21,000 have carried it all-time. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. In New York it runs about 7× its national rate. Its center of gravity has moved: strongest in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, strongest in the Northeast today. Aron is the less common spelling of Aaron — about 9% of babies given the name are written this way; Aaron itself ranked #80 in 2025.
Around the world: #6 in Estonia (2024) · #14 in Finland (Swedish-sp.) (2025) · #15 in Hungary (2025) · #72 in Switzerland (2024) · #78 in Norway (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 17 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 509 notable people named Aron:
Business leaders appear 2.49× more often than among typical names — e.g. Aron Sheinman, Russian banker (1885–1944).
Similar names: Aharon · Eliezer · Aarav · Nathanael · Barron · Samson
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