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Aaron

Boys’ name Recorded 1880-2025

Aaron was given to 4,041 boys in 2025, #80 among boys’ names; 618,857 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).

An estimated 564,000 Americans named Aaron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 22 and 45.

Aaron is the #44 most common first name among living American men and boys, by this estimate.

Babies named Aaron each year, first recorded in 1880
Aaron, 1880-2025; highest in 1989.5k10k15k20k188019001920194019601980200020251989 peak: 15,407
Aaron, 1880-2025; highest in 1989.5k10k15k20k188019001920194019601980200020251989 peak: 15,407
Aaron, 1880-2025; highest in 1989.5k10k15k20k18801905193019551980200520251989 peak: 15,407
Aaron, 1880-2025; highest in 1989.5k10k15k20k18801930198020251989 peak: 15,407

Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).

Aaron or AronNames of the 1980sNames in California

Births of Aaron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

What does Aaron mean?

Wiktionary, English section

Aaron is “a male given name from Hebrew.” Its etymology gives the senses “bearer of martyrs” (meaning) and “warrior lion” (rw) and “elevated” (mean).

From Latin Aaron, from Ancient Greek Ἀαρών (Aarṓn), from Hebrew אַהֲרֹן (ʾAhărōn), 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”. Doublet of Harun.

/ˈɛəɹ.ən/

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary, entry Aaron (English), CC BY‑SA 4.0. Quoted from the entry; text after a cross-reference to another sense is left out.

Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).

How popular is Aaron?

#80 among boys’ names, 2025

Aaron fell from #52 in 2015 to #80 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 3.7 to 2.4 per 1,000.

15,407 babies in 1989, the peak

Aaron peaked in 1989, when 15,407 babies were given it (15,308 boys, #31 among boys’ names). The 4,058 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 26% of that peak.

Aaron by year
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 boys
20254,041#802.4
20244,245#792.5
20234,577#682.7
20224,527#712.6
20214,856#652.8
20205,100#633.0
20195,548#613.1
20185,996#603.3
20177,219#473.9
20167,178#493.8
Every recorded year (146)
YearBirthsRankPer 1,000 boys
20157,177#523.7
20147,412#503.9
20137,319#513.9
20127,545#514.0
20117,624#514.0
20107,470#553.9
20097,983#544.0
20088,545#504.2
20078,948#514.3
20068,310#574.0
20057,811#573.9
20048,400#534.2
20038,874#504.5
20029,008#434.6
20019,552#424.9
20009,561#414.9
19999,860#385.1
199810,552#375.5
199711,170#335.9
199611,971#346.3
199513,291#307.0
199414,385#287.4
199313,837#307.1
199214,512#307.3
199114,242#317.0
199014,557#347.1
198915,308#317.7
198814,408#317.5
198712,685#346.8
198612,692#336.9
198513,137#337.1
198413,401#297.4
198314,460#298.1
198214,406#307.9
198114,694#308.2
198013,166#347.4
197913,076#327.6
197812,299#327.5
197711,631#327.1
197611,344#307.2
197510,548#326.8
197410,507#326.7
19739,232#345.9
19727,863#404.8
19718,403#414.8
19706,584#523.5
19694,596#612.6
19683,428#872.0
19672,910#1061.7
19662,599#1171.5
19652,411#1301.3
19642,381#1381.2
19632,079#1601.0
19622,008#1591.0
19611,890#1670.89
19601,768#1780.83
19591,540#1910.72
19581,402#1990.66
19571,349#2000.63
19561,277#2060.60
19551,099#2170.53
1954972#2230.48
1953901#2230.46
1952939#2160.48
1951864#2230.46
1950798#2300.45
1949794#2270.45
1948701#2440.40
1947681#2520.37
1946578#2610.36
1945484#2700.36
1944506#2640.37
1943551#2550.39
1942569#2360.41
1941562#2270.46
1940514#2340.44
1939471#2450.43
1938477#2470.43
1937465#2490.44
1936443#2500.43
1935460#2510.44
1934477#2390.46
1933464#2420.47
1932514#2330.49
1931457#2500.44
1930499#2520.45
1929469#2580.44
1928561#2330.51
1927546#2400.48
1926593#2270.53
1925644#2150.58
1924682#2030.60
1923618#2090.56
1922699#1960.64
1921697#1970.63
1920668#1990.63
1919645#1950.66
1918656#1960.65
1917596#1970.64
1916583#1950.65
1915553#1980.65
1914485#1830.74
1913417#1660.81
1912303#1900.70
1911187#1710.83
1910145#1870.75
1909142#1730.87
1908114#1870.74
1907130#1660.89
190696#1880.72
190596#1880.73
1904117#1620.91
190393#1750.78
190278#2010.64
190180#1790.75
1900104#1930.69
189971#1910.67
189889#1770.73
189787#1770.77
189669#2160.58
189594#1660.80
189479#1880.68
189381#1760.72
189295#1660.78
189169#1840.68
189096#1470.86
188985#1580.77
188890#1660.74
188778#1600.77
188686#1610.78
188588#1530.82
188497#1420.85
1883105#1211.0
188285#1610.75
188194#1270.93
1880102#1310.92

Download Aaron’s births by year (CSV)

Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.

Is Aaron a boy’s or a girl’s name?

Aaron has been given almost only to boys: 4,395 girls in 146 years of records.

Girls and boys named Aaron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.

How many people are named Aaron, and how old are they?

564,000 alive in 2026, estimated

That is 91% of the 618,857 Americans ever recorded as Aaron. The median Aaron alive today is 35 years old; half are between 22 and 45.

The 2020 Census counted 494,237 people named Aaron (2,666 women and girls, 491,571 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 549,164 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.

Alive today, by age

100-10911
90-99320
80-891,720
70-795,530
60-6915,100
50-5966,900
40-49124,000
30-39 (median)133,000
20-2991,100
10-1976,500
0-945,800

Alive today, by generation

By generation
GenerationBornAlive
Silent Generation1928-19451,780
Baby Boomers1946-196416,900
Generation X1965-1980119,000
Millennials1981-1996213,000
Generation Z1997-2012139,000
Generation Alpha2013-202574,800

An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.

Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).

Where are babies named Aaron born?

The states with the most babies named Aaron are California, Texas and Florida, with 40% of its births recorded by state in 2025.

States with the most births: girls and boys together; rank among boys’ names in the state in 2025
StateBirths 2025Rank, boysvs. national
California616#561.1×
Texas577#621.1×
Florida423#380.8×
New York282#590.8×
New Jersey178#480.6×
Georgia131#850.7×
Illinois117#980.9×
North Carolina116#1050.9×
Pennsylvania115#1090.9×
Ohio104#1311.1×

Where Aaron is more common than its national share predicts

Relative to its national share, Aaron is most over-represented in Washington: since 1910 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.

Washington1.18×
Kansas1.18×
Hawaii1.17×
Indiana1.16×
Oregon1.15×
Michigan1.11×
California1.10×
Ohio1.10×

Bars start at 1× (as often as the national share predicts).

States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aaron with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.

Names spelled alike

Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 660,300 babies since 1880, Aaron is the most given (94% of them). In 2025 it was given to 4,058 of their 4,745 babies (86%), again the most given.

Aaron and the names spelled alike
NameSince 1880Births 2025Peak year
Aaron618,8574,0581989
Aron21,5903772008
Arron8,249121989
Arion2,830701998
Aren2,595712024
Aharon2,584712021
Aaryan2,155742016
Arun1,440121995

Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.

Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aaron

Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.

NameRecorded1880-2025
Marcus242,999
Matthew1,659,655
Demetrius37,791
Jonathan874,440
Ryan991,747

Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.

More about Aaron and names like it

  1. Compare Aaron and AronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
  2. The most given names of the 1980sAaron peaked in 1989.
  3. California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aaron since 1910.
  4. Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Aaron: every such name, by how often it is given.
  5. The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Aaron.
  6. The names of the MillennialsMost people named Aaron alive today were born 1981-1996.
  7. Names starting with AMost given first.

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