Aron

Meaning: Uncertain; possibly 'exalted' or 'high mountain'
Origin: Form of Aaron (from Hebrew)

Boy's name · #711 in the US (2025) · Trending

Popularity over time

Aron is climbing: on the charts since 1880, it is ranked #711 in 2025, with about 380 boys given the name last year. Roughly 21,000 have carried it all-time. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

In recent years, Aron ran about 7× its national rate in New York.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 17 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

Aron is especially popular in Estonia.

#14 in Finland (Swedish-sp.) (2025) · #15 in Hungary (2025) · #78 in Sweden (2025) · #78 in Norway (2025) · #87 in Switzerland (2025) · #124 in Slovenia (2025) · #134 in Poland (2025) · #136 in Austria (2025) · #164 in Netherlands (2025) · #273 in Belgium (2025) · #305 in Ecuador (2025) · #383 in France (2025) and 5 more.

Famous Arons

Aron Ralston — Mountain climber, autobiographer, motivational speaker
Aron Gunnarsson — Icelandic professional footballer
Aron Winter — Dutch association football player and manager (born 1967)
Aron Jóhannsson — American soccer player
Áron Szilágyi — Hungarian fencer

In stories & tradition

Aron^it — Fantastic Four
Aron Iryjczyk^pl — Robotnicy wezwani o jedenastej (book)

What Arons become

Among 509 notable people named Aron:

Business leaders appear 2.49× more often than among typical names — e.g. Aron Sheinman, Russian banker (1885–1944).

Spellings & nicknames

Aron is the less common spelling of Aaron — about 9% of babies given the name are written this way; Aaron itself ranked #80 in 2025.

Similar names: Aharon · Nathanael · Ariel · Immanuel · Barron · Jon

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