In 2025, 377 US boys were named Aron, making it the 711th most common boys’ name of the year, up 61 places from #772 in 2024. That is 50 more than the 327 boys named Aron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #458, reached in 1978. The most boys given the name in a single year was 427, in 2008. For comparison, it was #731 in 2015 and #1,273 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aron in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 8 babies with the name. In all, 21,590 US babies have been given the name, 1.6% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 3,514 babies named Aron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,350 US boys were named Aron; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 377. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,531 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aron ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #113 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aaron (618,857 babies since 1880), Arron (8,249 babies since 1880), Aharon (2,584 babies since 1880) and Aryan (8,854 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Arien, Arynn and Ariyon are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Erin, Ron and Ronnie.