Aron
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from Hebr. Aharon; etymology uncertain, traditionally 'brother of Moses'
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 55 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/aɾon/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Aron is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- ISIceland1 in 227(measured from records)
- HUHungary1 in 450
- SESweden1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Aron itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 425 (measured from records)
- 1 in 227 (inferred from the name graph)
494,237 named Aaron, 2020
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Áron in HU Hungary and Арон in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from Hebr. Aharon; etymology uncertain, traditionally 'brother of Moses'
Cited for this meaning 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested across 8 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Aron, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Aron counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 494,237as Aaron | 1 in 673 | 492K | Aron | 425 |
| ES Spain | — | 33,716as Aaron | 1 in 1.5K | 34K | Aron | 61 |
| HU Hungary | #166 | 21,727 | 1 in 450 | 22K | Áron | 133 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 11,481as Aaron | 1 in 1.5K | 11K | — | 25 |
| FI Finland | — | 7,847as Aaron | 1 in 710 | 8.9K | Арон | 10 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 3,469as Aaron | 1 in 1.5K | 3.5K | — | 16 |
| IS Iceland | — | 1,542 | 1 in 227 | 1.5K | — | 2 |
494,237 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling aaron. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Aron is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, Underlying Hebrew Rufname mentioned as possible source of patronymic surname forms such as Ahrens and Arnd.
as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 1: Graphematik/Phonologie der Familiennamen I, Vokalismus
In Welsh, Variant of Arawn or biblical Aaron; earliest cited 1292 (Aron ab Ener).
as a nameWelsh Surnames
In English, A male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Romanian, < ebr., fratele profetului Moise.. 1. Petru-Aron Vvd ; Aron-Voda Aroneanu, m-rea Intemeiata de acesta. 2. Aronifa, soli& unui Aron (Ard). 3. Arontea (Ard II 194), formatie ca L eont e din Leon ; 4.. Cu afer. : Ronta (Mot). Cf. R one, R onc e a, la tema Ron. Arodv.Irodion 5. Arpanti v. Lavr ent e II 3. Arpentl, -e, Arpintie v. La v r en tie IT 1, 2.
as a nameDictionar Onomastic Rominesc
In English, Raymond Claude Ferdinand,
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Italo Svevob. 1861ITnot in their usual nameItalian writer (1861-1928)
- Elvis Aaron Presleyb. 1935USnot in their usual nameAmerican singer and actor (1935–1977)
- Aron Winterb. 1967NLDutch association football player and manager (born 1967)
- Aron Eisenbergb. 1969USAmerican actor
- Aaron Jefferyb. 1970NZnot in their usual nameAustralian actor
- Aron Ralstonb. 1975USMountain climber, autobiographer, motivational speaker
- Damien Sandowb. 1982USnot in their usual nameAmerican professional wrestler
- Aron Baynesb. 1986NZAustralian basketball player (born 1986)
- Aron Gunnarssonb. 1989ISIcelandic professional footballer
- Áron Szilágyib. 1990HUHungarian fencer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)124 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 55 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 16K | #1,784 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.2K | #1,617 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 1.9K | #804 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 1.5K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 1.5K | #559 |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa — population register names 2023 | 2023 | 1.5K | #15 |
| IS Iceland | Statistics Iceland — Names (1703–present) | — | 1.5K | #15 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 1.3K | #655 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 1K | — |
| IS Iceland | Hagstofa Íslands — Given-name frequency by population (2005) | 2005 | 741 | #43 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 419 | #1,784 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 377 | — |
Reference works 10
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Aron?
- In the etymology graph, Aaron, Harun and Arron are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Aron mean, and where does it come from?
- from Hebr. Aharon; etymology uncertain, traditionally 'brother of Moses' Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- Is Aron a male or female name?
- Aron is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB), Brazil (IBGE, 2022) and Netherlands (Meertens NVB), among others.
- How do you pronounce Aron?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /aɾon/; in Swahili /aɾon/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- How common is the name Aron?
- In Hungary, the national register counted 21,727 people named Aron in 2025, about 1 in 450 residents.
- How common is Aron compared with other names?
- In Hungary, Aron is the 166th most common given name of 18,528 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Aron have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 494 thousand people named Aaron, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Aron most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Aron is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 227 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/aronThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Aron” — the 166th most common given name in Hungary. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.