Jaron
Jaron was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,461 among boys’ names; 11,276 Americans have been recorded with it since 1964 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,900 Americans named Jaron and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 28 years old and half are between 20 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jaron by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jaron mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jaron is “a male given name of modern usage”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jaron?
#2,461 among boys’ names, 2025
Jaron fell from #1,534 in 2015 to #2,461 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 55.8 to 32.2 per million.
557 babies in 2001, the peak
Jaron peaked in 2001, when 557 babies were given it (551 boys, #440 among boys’ names). The 55 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,461 | 0.03 |
| 2024 | 49 | #2,688 | 0.03 |
| 2023 | 63 | #2,257 | 0.04 |
| 2022 | 79 | #1,958 | 0.05 |
| 2021 | 67 | #2,139 | 0.04 |
| 2020 | 67 | #2,102 | 0.04 |
| 2019 | 78 | #1,907 | 0.04 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,181 | 0.04 |
| 2017 | 94 | #1,690 | 0.05 |
| 2016 | 100 | #1,613 | 0.05 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 107 | #1,534 | 0.06 |
| 2014 | 137 | #1,297 | 0.07 |
| 2013 | 147 | #1,225 | 0.08 |
| 2012 | 174 | #1,078 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 201 | #980 | 0.11 |
| 2010 | 255 | #837 | 0.13 |
| 2009 | 216 | #943 | 0.11 |
| 2008 | 272 | #806 | 0.13 |
| 2007 | 329 | #707 | 0.16 |
| 2006 | 248 | #820 | 0.12 |
| 2005 | 286 | #714 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 310 | #659 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 323 | #635 | 0.16 |
| 2002 | 365 | #585 | 0.19 |
| 2001 | 551 | #440 | 0.28 |
| 2000 | 342 | #583 | 0.17 |
| 1999 | 328 | #590 | 0.17 |
| 1998 | 320 | #591 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 327 | #570 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 262 | #639 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 305 | #586 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 343 | #552 | 0.18 |
| 1993 | 405 | #509 | 0.21 |
| 1992 | 428 | #486 | 0.21 |
| 1991 | 378 | #510 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 385 | #498 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 408 | #467 | 0.20 |
| 1988 | 399 | #452 | 0.21 |
| 1987 | 364 | #463 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 227 | #589 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 139 | #755 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 126 | #769 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 120 | #802 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 139 | #748 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 110 | #838 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 117 | #814 | 0.07 |
| 1979 | 145 | #719 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 97 | #875 | 0.06 |
| 1977 | 85 | #927 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 72 | #983 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,162 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 51 | #1,160 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 33 | #1,488 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 20 | #2,041 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,236 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,341 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #2,948 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,903 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,388 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,806 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Jaron a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jaron has been given almost only to boys: 48 girls in 60 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jaron: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jaron, and how old are they?
10,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 11,276 Americans ever recorded as Jaron. The median Jaron alive today is 28 years old; half are between 20 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 9,146 people named Jaron (107 women and girls, 9,039 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 10,650 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 664 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,350 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,780 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,100 |
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 Jaron born?
The states with the most babies named Jaron are Texas, Pennsylvania and California, with 77% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #2,405 | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,155 | 0.9× |
| California | 5 | #2,611 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 5 | #1,951 | 0.8× |
Where Jaron is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jaron is most over-represented in Utah: since 1964 it was given 2.8 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 Jaron 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 23,596 babies since 1880, Jaron is the most given (48% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 148 babies (37%), again the 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 Jaron
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 Jaron and names like it
- Compare Jaron and JarenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJaron peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jaron since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Jaron.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jaron alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.