Aaron

What Aaron means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Aaron yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1989, with 15,308 babies; 4,041 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Aaron?

US: Falling: down from #52 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #87 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1981, when 14,694 boys got the name (#30 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 423 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 948 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 351 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in DE (5.09 per 1,000 boys), RI (4.8 per 1,000 boys), WY (4.59 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Aaron is #80 in the US and #180 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.6% of US babies named Aaron were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Aayan108 US · 56 E&W
• Aarin32 US · 8 E&W
• Aahan25 US
• Aaran5 US · 17 E&W
• Aaren9 US · 5 E&W
• Aeon9 US
• Aaryn8 US
• Aaden8 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Aaron

Boys

• Jeremy#292Form of Jeremiah, meaning “Yahweh exalt”^*
• Adam#101“earth, man, soil, light brown”^*
• Michael#21“who is like God?”^*
• David#35“beloved”^*
• Daniel#22“God is my judge”^*
• Timothy#203“to honour + god”^*

For a sister

• Elizabeth#17“my God is an oath”^*
• Michelle#465Feminine form of Michel, meaning “who is like God?”^*
• Jessica#665possibly “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe…^*
• Rebecca#349“enchantingly beautiful, captivating, snare”^*
• Jamie#857Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1977, with 12,895 babies; 316 in 2025
• Samantha#151“listener”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Bible, Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Aaron’s. Rank is US 2025.