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Arun

#6,838 in 2025Boys' name

Reddish brown, tawny, through अरुण

Arun has been given to 1,440 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #6,838 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 44 recorded.

Babies named Arun, 2025

1 in 276,000

Arun over time, 1880–2025

Boys
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Arun: meaning, origin, and history

Reddish brown, tawny, through अरुण

Sanskrit

What Arun means

Arun belongs to the name family reached through Arun → अरुण. Its meaning is “reddish brown, tawny”.

Origin, language, and formation

Arun is used in English and Lun Bawang. Its origins include Sanskrit.

Arun comes through Sanskrit अरुण.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include अरुण.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Arun is pronounced /ɑːˈɹʊn/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,440 boys were recorded with the name Arun between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 44 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,869 in 1979.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,283 in 2020 to #6,838 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,074 in 2015 to #6,838 in 2025.

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 Arun?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 142,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,838
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Arun 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Arun. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Aruns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Arun was born before 1998 — so the typical Arun is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
23.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,440
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 23.8% of all recorded uses (342).

Is Arun 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
−914
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,555
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,764
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.67×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
27.3%
Peak was 1995 (44)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,869
1979

Spellings of Arun

Arun is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 39.5% against Arun's 0.09%.

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 Arun is used

Across 1910–2025, Arun was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 193,270 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in —
  5. 5Michigan1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —
  7. 7Virginia1 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. Arun has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Arun around the world

Where Arun 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
    #2,133
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2001–2007
    #595
    in 2007
  • Ireland
    2003–2003
    #423
    in 2003
  • France
    1988–2025
    #2,909
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2019
    #2,084
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1972–1998
    #534
    in 1998

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Arun by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,838
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,555
Best rank ever
#1,869
1979
Peak year
1995
44 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,440
Count in 2025
12

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Sibling names for Arun

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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