Aran
Aran was given to 38 boys in 2025, #3,129 among boys’ names; 1,001 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aran by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Aran mean?
Wiktionary, Welsh section
Aran is “a male given name transferred from the place name”
/ˈaran/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Welsh section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Aran?
#3,129 among boys’ names, 2025
Aran rose from #4,411 in 2015 to #3,129 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 11.5 to 22.2 per million.
38 babies in 2025, the peak
Aran peaked in 2025, when 38 boys were given it, #3,129 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 31 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 38 | #3,129 | 22.2 |
| 2024 | 31 | #3,607 | 18.0 |
| 2023 | 35 | #3,349 | 20.5 |
| 2022 | 36 | #3,280 | 20.6 |
| 2021 | 12 | #6,727 | 6.9 |
| 2020 | 27 | #3,815 | 15.6 |
| 2019 | 34 | #3,348 | 18.9 |
| 2018 | 27 | #3,894 | 14.9 |
| 2017 | 31 | #3,518 | 16.7 |
| 2016 | 22 | #4,485 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #4,411 | 11.5 |
| 2014 | 30 | #3,535 | 15.6 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,325 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 32 | #3,376 | 16.9 |
| 2011 | 27 | #3,797 | 14.2 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,373 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,166 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 30 | #3,565 | 14.7 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,246 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,892 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 20 | #4,330 | 10.0 |
| 2004 | 23 | #3,862 | 11.6 |
| 2003 | 20 | #4,118 | 10.1 |
| 2002 | 16 | #4,713 | 8.2 |
| 2001 | 10 | #6,474 | 5.1 |
| 2000 | 16 | #4,584 | 8.1 |
| 1999 | 14 | #4,772 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 11 | #5,488 | 5.8 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,299 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 9 | #6,006 | 4.8 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,023 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #3,916 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 10 | #5,374 | 5.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #6,703 | 3.5 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,238 | 6.4 |
| 1989 | 9 | #5,181 | 4.5 |
| 1988 | 12 | #3,922 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,022 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 10 | #4,142 | 5.4 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,059 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 11 | #3,714 | 6.1 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,150 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,250 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,870 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 10 | #3,854 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #4,087 | 5.2 |
| 1978 | 15 | #2,801 | 9.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,794 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #3,272 | 7.0 |
| 1975 | 13 | #2,911 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,570 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 12 | #2,860 | 7.7 |
| 1972 | 10 | #3,163 | 6.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,286 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #4,249 | 3.2 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,076 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Aran a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,001 Americans recorded as Aran, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 38 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aran: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aran, and how old are they?
An estimated 971 Americans named Aran and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 33. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 1,114 people named Aran (174 women and girls, 940 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 808 born in the U.S. The Census count is 38% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Aran born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 7 | #2,091 | 0.3× |
| California | 6 | #2,225 | 0.8× |
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 Aran 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 672,266 babies since 1880, Aran is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 38 of their 5,155 babies (<1%), the seventh 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 Aran
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 Aran and names like it
- Compare Aran and AaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAran peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aran since 1910.
- From place namesWiktionary’s origin for Aran: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Aran.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Aran alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with AMost given first.