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Baron

#1,370 in 2025Boys' name

A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization, through baron

Baron has been given to 7,059 babies in the U.S. since 1912. In 2025 it ranked #1,370 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 196 recorded.

Babies named Baron, 2025

1 in 24,600

Baron over time, 1880–2025

Boys
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Baron: meaning, origin, and history

A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization, through baron

English

What Baron means

Baron belongs to the name family reached through Baron → baron. Its meaning is “A very important figure, especially a high-ranking person in an organization”.

Origin, language, and formation

Baron is used in Cebuano. Its origins include English.

Baron comes through English baron.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include baron.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,059 boys were recorded with the name Baron between 1912 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 196 in 2008; its best national rank was #589 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,505 in 2020 to #1,370 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,319 in 2015 to #1,370 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 Baron?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 24,600
135 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 12,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,370
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,023 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Baron 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,023 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Baron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Baron was born before 1992 — so the typical Baron is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
19.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
6,569
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Choose a decade

2010s — 19.7% of all recorded uses (1,389).

Is Baron 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
+142
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+135
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−51
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
1.01×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.9%
Peak was 2008 (196)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#589
1966

Spellings of Baron

Baron is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 31.1% against Baron's 0.21%.

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 Baron is used

Across 2016–2025, Baron was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 11,111 boys, against 1 in 19,027 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in 100,000).

19 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 11,111
  2. 2Ohio1 in 11,111
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 11,111
  4. 4Florida1 in 14,286
  5. 5Michigan1 in 14,286
  6. 6Texas1 in 14,286
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 20,000
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 in 20,000

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.

Baron around the world

Where Baron 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
    1999–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #2,550
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1999–2013
    #499
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Baron

People whose public names include Baron, 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.

Baron in other languages

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

Barron

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

Baron by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,370
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 135
Best rank ever
#589
1966
Peak year
2008
196 that year
First recorded
1912
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,059
Count in 2025
135

Names similar to Baron

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

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Names with a curve like Baron

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

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Sibling names for Baron

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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