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Aran

#3,129 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Aran has been given to 1,001 babies in the U.S. since 1969. In 2025 it ranked #3,129 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 38 recorded.

Babies named Aran, 2025

1 in 87,200

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Aran: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

place names

What Aran means

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

The naming story behind Aran

One of the source’s documented entries for Aran records a meaning of joyous, shouting.

One of the source’s documented entries for Aran records a meaning of valley.

Origin, language, and formation

Aran is used in Welsh. Its origins include place names.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Welsh, Aran is pronounced /ˈaran/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 974 boys were recorded with the name Aran between 1969 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 38 in 2025; its best national rank was #2,286 in 1971.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,815 in 2020 to #3,129 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,411 in 2015 to #3,129 in 2025.

In the United States, 27 girls were recorded with the name Aran between 1977 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 8 in 1998; its best national rank was #7,604 in 1977.

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 Aran?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 87,200
38 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 44,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,129
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
60,472 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aran 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 60,472 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aran. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aran was born before 2008 — so the typical Aran is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
65.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
974
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (269).

Is Aran 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
+478
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+686
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,282
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.73×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (38)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,286
1971

Spellings of Aran

Aran is not the most common spelling — Brian is, with 13.3% against Aran's 0.01%.

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 Aran is used

Across 1910–2025, Aran was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 291,523 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  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. Aran has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Aran around the world

Where Aran 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
    #953
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1988–2025
    #560
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    1998–2002
    #243
    in 2002
  • Ireland
    1974–2025
    #329
    in 2025
  • France
    2005–2025
    #3,071
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1996–2023
    #1,448
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1973–2012
    #771
    in 2012

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

Aran by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,129
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 686
Best rank ever
#2,286
1971
Peak year
2025
38 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
974
Count in 2025
38

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,604
1977
Peak year
1998
8 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
27
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aran

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

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Sibling names for Aran

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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