Aron

Where Aron comes from

The dictionaries list Aron as a given name — a male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #682 among boys — 8 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1924
    Aron Gurevich born
    Russian historian
  3. 1953
    Aron Atabek born
    Kazakh poet, journalist, politician
  4. 1978
    Peak, #458
    304 babies named Aron — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Hebrew, a less common spelling of Aaron.
Namesakes
  • Aron Gurevich · Russian historian, 1924–2006
  • Aron Atabek · Kazakh poet, journalist, politician, 1953–2021
  • Aron Ilʹich Rubin · 1888–1961
  • Aron Kohen · 1900–1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.