Aharon
Aharon was given to 71 boys in 2025, #2,077 among boys’ names; 2,584 Americans have been recorded with it since 1959 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Aharon and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 8 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aharon by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aharon mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Aharon is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Transliteration of Hebrew אהרן (Ahărōn).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aharon?
#2,077 among boys’ names, 2025
Aharon fell from #1,780 in 2015 to #2,077 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 44.3 to 41.6 per million.
94 babies in 2021, the peak
Aharon peaked in 2021, when 94 boys were given it, #1,721 among boys’ names. The 71 births of 2025 are 76% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 71 | #2,077 | 41.6 |
| 2024 | 89 | #1,821 | 51.7 |
| 2023 | 82 | #1,910 | 47.9 |
| 2022 | 90 | #1,804 | 51.5 |
| 2021 | 94 | #1,721 | 53.7 |
| 2020 | 77 | #1,912 | 44.6 |
| 2019 | 72 | #2,019 | 40.1 |
| 2018 | 89 | #1,733 | 49.0 |
| 2017 | 67 | #2,066 | 36.2 |
| 2016 | 79 | #1,875 | 41.6 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 85 | #1,780 | 44.3 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,116 | 33.8 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,204 | 31.2 |
| 2012 | 53 | #2,380 | 27.9 |
| 2011 | 70 | #1,967 | 36.9 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,238 | 30.2 |
| 2009 | 72 | #1,958 | 36.3 |
| 2008 | 48 | #2,584 | 23.5 |
| 2007 | 58 | #2,257 | 27.9 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,176 | 28.7 |
| 2005 | 45 | #2,490 | 22.5 |
| 2004 | 51 | #2,234 | 25.7 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,003 | 28.9 |
| 2002 | 59 | #1,885 | 30.4 |
| 2001 | 51 | #2,047 | 26.2 |
| 2000 | 42 | #2,295 | 21.4 |
| 1999 | 47 | #2,020 | 24.5 |
| 1998 | 54 | #1,830 | 28.3 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,057 | 22.8 |
| 1996 | 32 | #2,438 | 16.9 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,021 | 21.5 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,255 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 32 | #2,344 | 16.3 |
| 1992 | 47 | #1,773 | 23.5 |
| 1991 | 46 | #1,738 | 22.8 |
| 1990 | 53 | #1,559 | 25.8 |
| 1989 | 40 | #1,853 | 20.0 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,844 | 18.8 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,330 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 23 | #2,359 | 12.5 |
| 1985 | 20 | #2,504 | 10.8 |
| 1984 | 24 | #2,158 | 13.3 |
| 1983 | 30 | #1,821 | 16.7 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,111 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 25 | #2,086 | 14.0 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,730 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 17 | #2,669 | 9.9 |
| 1978 | 17 | #2,568 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 16 | #2,666 | 9.7 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,708 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,902 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,838 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 11 | #3,013 | 7.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #3,965 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,661 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,838 | 3.8 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,365 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,050 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,317 | 3.4 |
| 1959 | 7 | #3,290 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aharon a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Aharon has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Aharon: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aharon, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 2,584 Americans ever recorded as Aharon. The median Aharon alive today is 17 years old; half are between 8 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 2,005 people named Aharon (32 women and girls, 1,973 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 17 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 129 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 507 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 853 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,010 |
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 Aharon born?
The states with the most babies named Aharon are New York, New Jersey and Florida, with 91% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 24 | #620 | 6.2× |
| New Jersey | 22 | #363 | 6.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,630 | 0.4× |
| Maryland | 5 | #812 | 0.7× |
Where Aharon is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aharon is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1959 it was given 6.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Aharon 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 656,290 babies since 1880, Aharon is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 4,629 babies (1.5%), the third most given that year.
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 Aharon
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Aharon and names like it
- Compare Aharon and AaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAharon peaked in 2021.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aharon since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Aharon: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2021The year the most babies were named Aharon.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aharon alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.