Aro

#5,879 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning not yet documented

Aro has been given to 109 babies in the U.S. since 2009. In 2025 it ranked #5,879 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Aro, 2025

1 in 221,000

Aro over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Aro?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,879
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aro 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aro. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aros were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aro was born before 2021 — so the typical Aro is around 4 today.

Median birth year
2021
About 4 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
67.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
109
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 67.0% of all recorded uses (73).

Is Aro 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
+981
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,248
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (15)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,879
2025

Aro around the world

Where Aro 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
    2005–2025
    #3,684
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • France
    2004–2025
    #6,080
    in 2025

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Aro by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,879
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,248
Best rank ever
#5,879
2025
Peak year
2025
15 that year
First recorded
2009
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
109
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Aro

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Sibling names for Aro

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