Aaron

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Hebrew

Meaning

Aaron is an English masculine given name. The 'h' phoneme in the original Hebrew pronunciation "Aharon" is dropped in the Greek, แผˆฮฑฯฯŽฮฝ, from which the English form, Aaron, is derived. Aaron, the brother of Moses, is described in the Torah, the Quran and the Baha'i Iqan.

From Wikipedia

Aaron first appears in the data in 1968 and has been recorded in 51 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1986 with 746 babies (rank #20 that year). It was not in the 2025 data. The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Aaron

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Aaron yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

20,679
Total babies (all years)
51
Years in the data
746
Peak in a single year

Popularity Over Time โ€” Boys

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
196829#111
1969114#89
1970168#76
1971271#56
1972361#40
1973310#44
1974400#36
1975385#34
1976438#33
1977476#29
1978565#26
1979671#23
1980628#23
1981688#23
1982658#24
1983725#23
1984722#23
1985704#23
1986746#20
1987682#21
1988665#21
1989721#18
1990725#19
1991658#21
1992686#23
1993618#25
1994589#24
1995578#28
1996514#30
1997451#36
1998367#42
1999350#44
2000340#44
2001330#43
2002288#52
2003267#51
2004248#53
2005215#67
2006127#82
2007124#81
2008231#76
2009197#85
2010230#73
2011200#83
201275#110
2013190#87
2014214#85
201576#132
2016283#115
2017186#94
2019195#100