Aeron

#8,923 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Aeron has been given to 693 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #8,923 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1994, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.

Babies named Aeron, 2025

1 in 414,000

Aeron over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Aeron over time

In 2025, Aeron went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19702025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Aeron: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aeron means

Aeron is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Aeron is used in Welsh.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Aeron is pronounced /ˈei̯r.ɔn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 628 boys were recorded with the name Aeron between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 26 in 1994; its best national rank was #2,761 in 1994.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,086 in 2020 to #8,923 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,719 in 2015 to #8,923 in 2025.

In the United States, 65 girls were recorded with the name Aeron between 1974 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1999; its best national rank was #8,160 in 1976.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Aeron?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,923
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aeron sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aeron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aerons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aeron was born before 2003 — so the typical Aeron is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
628
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Choose a decade

2010s — 27.5% of all recorded uses (173).

Is Aeron rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−837
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−4,204
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.8%
Peak was 1994 (26)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,761
1994

Spellings of Aeron

Aeron is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 28.1% against Aeron's 0.03%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aeron is used

Across 1910–2025, Aeron was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,000,909 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Aeron has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aeron around the world

Where Aeron ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • France
    2006–2025
    #4,500
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2008–2022
    #1,972
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1977–1989
    #478
    in 1989

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Aeron by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,923
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 837
Best rank ever
#2,761
1994
Peak year
1994
26 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
628
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,160
1976
Peak year
1999
7 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
65
Count in 2025
Under 5

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