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Aram

#1,771 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Aram has been given to 3,365 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,771 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 105 recorded.

Babies named Aram, 2025

1 in 36,400

Aram over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aram: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aram means

Aram has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Aram

One of the source’s documented entries for Aram records a meaning of calm.

An additional editorial entry explicitly leaves the meaning of Aram uncertain. That qualification belongs to its own naming route, even when another tradition using the same spelling has a known translation. The spelling alone cannot decide which history a family intends.

One of the source’s documented entries for Aram records a meaning of fortress, elevated place.

Origin, language, and formation

Aram is used in Northern Kurdish.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Northern Kurdish, Aram is pronounced /ɑːˈɾɑːm/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,310 boys were recorded with the name Aram between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 105 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,397 in 1922.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,977 in 2020 to #1,771 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,113 in 2015 to #1,771 in 2025.

In the United States, 55 girls were recorded with the name Aram between 2002 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2005; its best national rank was #13,169 in 2005.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Aram?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 36,400
91 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 18,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,771
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
25,253 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aram 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 5001%

Put another way: gather 25,253 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aram. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arams were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aram was born before 2000 — so the typical Aram is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
49.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,931
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (656).

Is Aram 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
−151
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+206
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+342
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.38×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
86.7%
Peak was 2024 (105)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,397
1922

Spellings of Aram

Aram is not the most common spelling — Adam is, with 27.0% against Aram's 0.15%.

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 Aram is used

Across 2016–2025, Aram was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 5,882 boys, against 1 in 15,730 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

117 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 5,882
  2. 2Texas1 in 25,000
  3. 3New York1 in 33,333
  4. 4Arizona1 in 50,000
  5. 5Florida1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 in 100,000

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.

Aram around the world

Where Aram 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
    2000–2025
    #1,359
    in 2025
  • France
    1924–2025
    #1,846
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #274
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,459
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1969–2009
    #473
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aram

People whose public names include Aram, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aram in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Aram. Linked forms have their own page here.

RamAvramArum

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Aram by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,771
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 206
Best rank ever
#1,397
1922
Peak year
2024
105 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,310
Count in 2025
91

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#13,169
2005
Peak year
2005
7 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
55
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aram

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Aram

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aram, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Aram

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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