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Barron

#790 in 2025Boys' name

Descendant of Bearán

Barron has been given to 5,647 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #790 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 320 recorded.

Babies named Barron, 2025

1 in 10,400

Barron over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Barron: meaning, origin, and history

Descendant of Bearán

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Barron means

Barron means “descendant of Bearán”, associated with Bearáin.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

* As a Scottish surname, from Scots baron, sometimes found as McBarron; see Baron. * As an Irish and Manx surname, from Ó Bearáin (literally “descendant of Bearán”), a personal name from bior (“spear”). See Barnes, Barrington. * As a Spanish surname, augmentative of Barro. * As a French and Spanish surname, variant of Baron.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Barron (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Origin, language, and formation

Barron is used in English.

Barron comes through Scots baron.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Baron.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,647 boys were recorded with the name Barron between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 320 in 2025; its best national rank was #750 in 1966.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,313 in 2020 to #790 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,958 in 2015 to #790 in 2025.

How common is Barron?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 10,400
320 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,340
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#790
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,182 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Barron 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 5005%

Put another way: gather 7,182 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Barron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Barrons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Barron was born before 1991 — so the typical Barron is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
18.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
42.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,153
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 18.8% of all recorded uses (1,063).

Is Barron 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
+229
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+523
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+1,168
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
4.32×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (320)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#750
1966

Spellings of Barron

Barron is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 36.0% against Barron's 0.33%.

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 Barron is used

Across 2016–2025, Barron was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 13,898 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in 100,000).

112 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in 8,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 9,091
  3. 3California1 in 10,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 10,000
  5. 5West Virginia1 in 10,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 11,111
  7. 7Florida1 in 12,500
  8. 8Michigan1 in 12,500

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.

Barron around the world

Where Barron 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
    2017–2025
    #3,256
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2007–2024
    #2,855
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–1972
    #479
    in 1972

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 Barron

People whose public names include Barron, 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.

Barron by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#790
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 523
Best rank ever
#750
1966
Peak year
2025
320 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,647
Count in 2025
320

Names similar to Barron

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

BaronBartonBarneyBaruchDarronBarretKamronDeronAharonTerronTheronLaronKyronCamronDaronTyronBarbaraArronJerronBayronBarrettDerronBarakJarron

Names with a curve like Barron

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

WesMontgomeryFlintAmadoLeifSvenMarcellusLevonAurelioGentryHenriMarlo

Sibling names for Barron

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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