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Jaron

#2,461 in 2025Boys' name

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Jaron has been given to 11,276 babies in the U.S. since 1964. In 2025 it ranked #2,461 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2001, with 551 recorded.

Babies named Jaron, 2025

1 in 60,300

Jaron over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020040060018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jaron: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jaron means

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

The naming story behind Jaron

A separate documented entry treats Jaron as a alternate transcription of Yaron. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Jaron is used in English.

Jaron is a modern formation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 11,228 boys were recorded with the name Jaron between 1964 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 551 in 2001; its best national rank was #440 in 2001.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,102 in 2020 to #2,461 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,534 in 2015 to #2,461 in 2025.

In the United States, 48 girls were recorded with the name Jaron between 1983 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1983; its best national rank was #8,375 in 1983.

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 Jaron?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 60,300
55 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 31,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,461
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
41,781 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jaron 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 41,781 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jaron. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jarons were born

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

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
11,228
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (3,481).

Is Jaron 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
+227
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−359
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−927
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.51×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
10.0%
Peak was 2001 (551)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#440
2001

Spellings of Jaron

Jaron is not the most common spelling — Jason is, with 21.2% against Jaron's 0.23%.

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 Jaron is used

Across 2016–2025, Jaron was most concentrated in Missouri — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 38,268 across all states with data. It was least common in North Carolina (1 in 100,000).

18 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Missouri1 in 12,500
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 20,000
  3. 3Ohio1 in 25,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 33,333
  5. 5New York1 in 33,333
  6. 6Texas1 in 33,333
  7. 7California1 in 50,000
  8. 8Georgia1 in 50,000

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.

Jaron around the world

Where Jaron 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
    1996–2023
    #3,113
    in 2023
  • France
    2003–2020
    #6,370
    in 2020
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1982–2009
    #708
    in 2009

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

Notable people named Jaron

People whose public names include Jaron, 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.

Jaron in other languages

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

JarronJielun

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

Jaron by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,461
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 359
Best rank ever
#440
2001
Peak year
2001
551 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
11,228
Count in 2025
55

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,375
1983
Peak year
1983
7 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
48
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jaron

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

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Names with a curve like Jaron

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

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Sibling names for Jaron

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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