Meaning not yet researched.
Baron: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 135 in 2025. Its best rank was #589 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #589 in 1966; #1,370 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Baron in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,370 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #589.
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Baron: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 135 boys in 2025. Peak: #589 in 1966 · most boys in one year: 196 (2008).
In 2025, 135 US boys were named Baron, making it the 1,370th most common boys’ name of the year, up 142 places from #1,512 in 2024. That is 17 more than the 118 boys named Baron in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #589, reached in 1966. The most boys given the name in a single year was 196, in 2008. For comparison, it was #1,319 in 2015 and #1,066 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Baron in 112 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1912 with 7 babies. In all, 7,059 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,389 babies named Baron.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,227 US boys were named Baron; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 151. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,652 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Baron ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #530 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Barron (5,647 babies since 1880) and Bayron (1,669 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Bairon, Baran and Barren are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Bairon (328), Baran (295), Barren (95), Barin (82), Bareen (53), Baren (11), Barrion (5), Baryn (5), Bahran (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Baron in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 6 | #530 | — |
| Michigan | 9 | #774 | #987 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #788 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #848 | — |
| California | 17 | #1,160 | #913 |
| Ohio | 5 | #1,287 | #1,088 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,292 | — |
| Texas | 15 | #1,302 | #1,199 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,652 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 135 | #1,370 |
| 2024 | — | — | 118 | #1,512 |
| 2023 | — | — | 94 | #1,748 |
| 2022 | — | — | 99 | #1,707 |
| 2021 | — | — | 124 | #1,455 |
| 2020 | — | — | 112 | #1,505 |
| 2019 | — | — | 139 | #1,314 |
| 2018 | — | — | 121 | #1,443 |
| 2017 | — | — | 151 | #1,214 |
| 2016 | — | — | 134 | #1,329 |
| 2015 | — | — | 134 | #1,319 |
| 2014 | — | — | 146 | #1,240 |
| 2013 | — | — | 133 | #1,298 |
| 2012 | — | — | 160 | #1,145 |
| 2011 | — | — | 130 | #1,309 |
| 2010 | — | — | 141 | #1,246 |
| 2009 | — | — | 158 | #1,153 |
| 2008 | — | — | 196 | #995 |
| 2007 | — | — | 156 | #1,144 |
| 2006 | — | — | 104 | #1,468 |
| 2005 | — | — | 73 | #1,790 |
| 2004 | — | — | 85 | #1,556 |
| 2003 | — | — | 64 | #1,846 |
| 2002 | — | — | 62 | #1,834 |
| 2001 | — | — | 61 | #1,818 |
| 2000 | — | — | 70 | #1,654 |
| 1999 | — | — | 60 | #1,723 |
| 1998 | — | — | 56 | #1,793 |
| 1997 | — | — | 52 | #1,814 |
| 1996 | — | — | 63 | #1,574 |
| 1995 | — | — | 66 | #1,468 |
| 1994 | — | — | 40 | #2,045 |
| 1993 | — | — | 62 | #1,494 |
| 1992 | — | — | 76 | #1,294 |
| 1991 | — | — | 62 | #1,443 |
| 1990 | — | — | 82 | #1,203 |
| 1989 | — | — | 75 | #1,243 |
| 1988 | — | — | 76 | #1,155 |
| 1987 | — | — | 91 | #997 |
| 1986 | — | — | 67 | #1,153 |
| 1985 | — | — | 72 | #1,095 |
| 1984 | — | — | 60 | #1,174 |
| 1983 | — | — | 63 | #1,131 |
| 1982 | — | — | 60 | #1,193 |
| 1981 | — | — | 58 | #1,199 |
| 1980 | — | — | 65 | #1,125 |
| 1979 | — | — | 52 | #1,270 |
| 1978 | — | — | 72 | #1,028 |
| 1977 | — | — | 52 | #1,221 |
| 1976 | — | — | 72 | #978 |
| 1975 | — | — | 68 | #994 |
| 1974 | — | — | 68 | #993 |
| 1973 | — | — | 83 | #874 |
| 1972 | — | — | 56 | #1,085 |
| 1971 | — | — | 96 | #822 |
| 1970 | — | — | 116 | #767 |
| 1969 | — | — | 81 | #852 |
| 1968 | — | — | 88 | #788 |
| 1967 | — | — | 117 | #687 |
| 1966 | — | — | 163 | #589 |
| 1965 | — | — | 97 | #751 |
| 1964 | — | — | 86 | #813 |
| 1963 | — | — | 75 | #869 |
| 1962 | — | — | 68 | #919 |
| 1961 | — | — | 94 | #785 |
| 1960 | — | — | 64 | #944 |
| 1959 | — | — | 55 | #1,036 |
| 1958 | — | — | 60 | #980 |
| 1957 | — | — | 48 | #1,102 |
| 1956 | — | — | 59 | #970 |
| 1955 | — | — | 49 | #1,078 |
| 1954 | — | — | 50 | #1,053 |
| 1953 | — | — | 50 | #1,025 |
| 1952 | — | — | 48 | #1,044 |
| 1951 | — | — | 32 | #1,299 |
| 1950 | — | — | 44 | #1,066 |
| 1949 | — | — | 29 | #1,348 |
| 1948 | — | — | 51 | #974 |
| 1947 | — | — | 35 | #1,235 |
| 1946 | — | — | 37 | #1,146 |
| 1945 | — | — | 19 | #1,539 |
| 1944 | — | — | 16 | #1,742 |
| 1943 | — | — | 16 | #1,840 |
| 1942 | — | — | 22 | #1,499 |
| 1941 | — | — | 12 | #2,090 |
| 1940 | — | — | 14 | #1,901 |
| 1939 | — | — | 10 | #2,300 |
| 1938 | — | — | 11 | #2,195 |
| 1937 | — | — | 12 | #2,093 |
| 1936 | — | — | 8 | #2,653 |
| 1935 | — | — | 11 | #2,257 |
| 1934 | — | — | 11 | #2,277 |
| 1933 | — | — | 13 | #2,000 |
| 1932 | — | — | 8 | #2,868 |
| 1931 | — | — | 10 | #2,491 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,042 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,006 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,738 |
| 1927 | — | — | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1926 | — | — | 14 | #2,200 |
| 1925 | — | — | 6 | #3,770 |
| 1924 | — | — | 8 | #3,289 |
| 1921 | — | — | 10 | #2,821 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,234 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,425 |
| 1918 | — | — | 17 | #1,911 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,248 |
| 1916 | — | — | 12 | #2,273 |
| 1915 | — | — | 13 | #2,075 |
| 1914 | — | — | 7 | #2,670 |
| 1913 | — | — | 6 | #2,525 |
| 1912 | — | — | 7 | #2,064 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).