Arun

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Sanskrit: ‘reddish-brown’, the colour of dawn, gold, and rubies, and personification of the dawn, the charioteer of the sun

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/aɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Arun is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 30th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • THThailand≈1 in 16K(inferred from the name graph)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 649as Aaron
  • USUnited States1 in 673as Aaron

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Arun itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

494,237 named Aaron, 2020

#155 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

10 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
645 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 16K (inferred from the name graph)

Thailand, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

AaronLatin(measured from records)
אהרןHebrew(measured from records)
অরুনBengali(measured from records)
ԱհարոնArmenian(measured from records)
อลันThai(measured from records)
아론Hangul(measured from records)
ଅରୁଣOdia(measured from records)
აარონGeorgian(measured from records)
АаронCyrillic(measured from records)
අරනSinhala(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aaron in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BR Brazil and 3 more, אהרן in IL Israel, PL Poland and Arron in HU Hungary.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Sanskrit: ‘reddish-brown’, the colour of dawn, gold, and rubies, and personification of the dawn, the charioteer of the sun. Feminine form: Aruna.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 4 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Arun counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Arun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#119494,237as Aaron1 in 673492KAaron645
BR Brazil—203,321as Alan1 in 1K207KAaron115
GB United Kingdom#158≈67,000 est.≈1 in 98314Aaron359
PL Poland#29653,215as Alan1 in 71953Kאהרן16
AU Australia#107≈39,000 est.≈1 in 649195Aaron325
HU Hungary—21,727as Áron1 in 45022KArron10
SE Sweden—18,422as Allan1 in 55418KAaron79
DK Denmark#89816,095as Allan1 in 36516KAaron65
IL Israel#30≈10,000 est.≈1 in 8515.3Kאהרן106
FI Finland—10,012as Allan1 in 55620KArun59
TH Thailand—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 16K#793,729Arun140

494,237 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Arun is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Aruṇ, Arün, Arūn

  • English given name42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Aruen, Arúñ, Arún, Àrúñ, Arün

  • Russian given name44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, United States, Kyrgyzstan

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Арун, Аран, Aran, Arán, Ăřüñ

  • Tamil given name20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Tamil, Malayalam

    Also written അരുൺ, அருண், Aruṇā, Vijay, ಅರುಣ್

  • a separate given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Àruñ, Ãruñ, Årûñ, Årun, Ârûñ

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Arun is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, aus Indien stammender männl. Vom. (sanskrit. aruna »rötlich braun, die Farbe der

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, A local government district of West Sussex, England.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, Northumbrian form of earon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Yoruba, disease, illness

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In its, mouth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1920194019601980Uttam Kumar, b. 1926Arun Manilal Gandhi, b. 1934Arun Kumar Biswas, b. 1934Arun Shourie, b. 1941Arun Bali, b. 1942Arun Nehru, b. 1944Arun Netravali, b. 1946Arun Jaitley, b. 1952Arun Govil, b. 1958Arun Vijay, b. 1977

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

Informalनमस्ते Arun जी,Hi Arun, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 76 sources across 40 countries.

Official registers attesting Arun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.5K#3,239
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—335#3,641
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026274#1,044
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—240#1,088
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—202#1,879
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020152—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—108#1,364
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020106#3,239
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—39#8,379
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—32—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202223—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—22#113,027

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

Where does the name Arun come from?
Sanskrit: ‘reddish-brown’, the colour of dawn, gold, and rubies, and personification of the dawn, the charioteer of the sun. Feminine form: Aruna. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
How do you pronounce Arun?
A machine transcription gives /aɹən/ (IPA) for Hindi.
What does the name Arun mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘reddish-brown’, the colour of dawn, gold, and rubies, and personification of the dawn, the charioteer of the sun.
Is Arun a male or female name?
Arun is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Arun?
In the etymology graph, Aruna is a form of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Arun have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 494 thousand people named Aaron, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Arun?
In the United States, the national register counted 494,237 people named Aaron in 2020, about 1 in 673 residents.
How common is Arun compared with other names?
In the United States, Arun is the 119th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arun” — the 119th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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