Aaron
For 2025 the count puts Aaron at #80 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. First recorded 1880, best year 1989, 614,462 bearers across the whole run.
What Aaron carries
Aaron · Hebrew
“mountain”
Source: Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884), see our sources.
Aaron’s free Name Kit
Five printables for Aaron, drawn in your browser at print size the moment you ask: a name print for the wall, a nursery sign, a tracing sheet, a shortlist sheet, and twelve sibling names with the reason for each. Letter size, 300 dpi, in the site’s own hand.
- Name print Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
- Nursery sign The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
- Tracing sheet The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
- Shortlist sheet A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
- Sibling names sheet Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Name print
Meaning, origin and the popularity curve on one sheet, ready for a frame.
Nursery sign
The name big and bright, for a door, a shelf or the top of a dresser.
Tracing sheet
The name in dotted letters, with room to go over it again and again.
Shortlist sheet
A page for weighing names side by side: initials, nicknames, how it sounds with yours.
Sibling names sheet
Twelve names that go with this one, each with the reason, from the sibling matcher.
Print on plain letter paper or heavier card; the sign and the print look best on matte stock.
Aaron since 1880
Aaron peaked in 1989 at #31; #80 in 2025.
United States national data, Social Security Administration, through 2025, how we use it.
Where Aaron is most common
By share of a state's recorded boys' names, Aaron runs strongest in Delaware at 0.51% in 2025, then Rhode Island and Wyoming.
Share of the state's recorded names for that sex, from the Social Security Administration's state file; a name is listed in a state only when five or more babies received it there that year.
Names that sit near Aaron
Same shelf of the library: origin, era and shape, scored deterministically.
Adam
#101 in 2025 · Hebrew
Ana
#245 in 2025 · Hebrew
Sarah
#90 in 2025 · Hebrew
Jose
#95 in 2025 · Hebrew
Joshua
#66 in 2025 · Hebrew
Nathan
#63 in 2025 · Hebrew
Caleb
#58 in 2025 · Hebrew
Hannah
#56 in 2025 · Hebrew
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About Aaron
How common is Aaron today?
For 2025 the count puts Aaron at #80 nationwide, and it is easing off its peak. The full curve since 1880 is above, public federal data, redrawn, never estimated.
What is the recorded meaning of Aaron?
The gloss on record reads “mountain”, of Hebrew origin (Charlotte M. Yonge, History of Christian Names (1884)).
What names go with Aaron?
On origin, era, syllables and first letter, Adam sits closest, with Ana and Sarah just behind. Give the matcher the names already in the house and it scores the whole top thousand against them.
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