Arun
Arun was given to 12 boys in 2025, #6,838 among boys’ names; 1,440 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,390 Americans named Arun and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 18 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Arun by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Arun mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Arun is “a male given name from Sanskrit chiefly used in India.”
Borrowed from Sanskrit अरुण (aruṇa).
/ɑːˈɹʊn/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Arun?
#6,838 among boys’ names, 2025
Arun fell from #5,074 in 2015 to #6,838 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 9.4 to 7.0 per million.
44 babies in 1995, the peak
Arun peaked in 1995, when 44 boys were given it, #1,914 among boys’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #6,838 | 7.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #5,924 | 8.7 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,319 | 6.4 |
| 2022 | 17 | #5,456 | 9.7 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,132 | 6.3 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,283 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,649 | 11.7 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,748 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 25 | #4,107 | 13.5 |
| 2016 | 21 | #4,633 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #5,074 | 9.4 |
| 2014 | 26 | #3,903 | 13.5 |
| 2013 | 29 | #3,584 | 15.3 |
| 2012 | 21 | #4,544 | 11.1 |
| 2011 | 30 | #3,516 | 15.8 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,527 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,925 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #3,347 | 16.2 |
| 2007 | 44 | #2,723 | 21.2 |
| 2006 | 37 | #2,985 | 18.0 |
| 2005 | 31 | #3,243 | 15.5 |
| 2004 | 32 | #3,078 | 16.1 |
| 2003 | 32 | #2,992 | 16.2 |
| 2002 | 43 | #2,373 | 22.1 |
| 2001 | 31 | #2,930 | 16.0 |
| 2000 | 33 | #2,736 | 16.8 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,460 | 18.7 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,094 | 23.0 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,347 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 24 | #3,023 | 12.7 |
| 1995 | 44 | #1,914 | 23.1 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,854 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 34 | #2,254 | 17.3 |
| 1992 | 26 | #2,669 | 13.0 |
| 1991 | 34 | #2,139 | 16.8 |
| 1990 | 35 | #2,084 | 17.0 |
| 1989 | 29 | #2,292 | 14.5 |
| 1988 | 22 | #2,604 | 11.5 |
| 1987 | 24 | #2,335 | 12.9 |
| 1986 | 27 | #2,096 | 14.7 |
| 1985 | 24 | #2,227 | 13.0 |
| 1984 | 29 | #1,886 | 16.1 |
| 1983 | 20 | #2,414 | 11.2 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,600 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 21 | #2,342 | 11.7 |
| 1980 | 21 | #2,370 | 11.8 |
| 1979 | 29 | #1,869 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 24 | #2,016 | 14.6 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,464 | 11.0 |
| 1976 | 22 | #2,116 | 14.0 |
| 1975 | 9 | #3,679 | 5.8 |
| 1974 | 15 | #2,551 | 9.5 |
| 1973 | 19 | #2,131 | 12.2 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,249 | 10.5 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,468 | 8.5 |
| 1970 | 9 | #3,295 | 4.8 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,080 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,698 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 5 | #3,998 | 2.9 |
| 1966 | 8 | #2,998 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Arun a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Arun 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 Arun: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Arun, and how old are they?
1,390 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 1,440 Americans ever recorded as Arun. The median Arun alive today is 28 years old; half are between 18 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 6,629 people named Arun (106 women and girls, 6,523 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,317 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.0 times 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 203 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 415 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 520 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 247 |
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 Arun born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #2,508 | 0.9× |
Where Arun is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Arun is most over-represented in New York: since 1966 it was given 1.2 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 Arun 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 672,705 babies since 1880, Arun is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 5,129 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
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 Arun
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 Arun and names like it
- Compare Arun and AaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sArun peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Arun since 1910.
- Sanskrit namesWiktionary’s origin for Arun: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Arun.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Arun alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.