Arán
surname · Latin script
Meaning: blackthorn
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Arán is a surname 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.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 649as Aaron(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 673as Aaron
- PLPoland1 in 719as Alan
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 Arán 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)
- #155 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 645 (measured from records)
- 1 in 365 (inferred from the name graph)
494,237 named Aaron, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Denmark, as Allan
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Aaron in US United States, GB United Kingdom, BR Brazil and 3 more, אהרן in IL Israel, PL Poland, Arron in HU Hungary and Arun in FI Finland.
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)
blackthorn
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Arán 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #119 | 494,237as Aaron | 1 in 673 | 492K | Aaron | 645 |
| BR Brazil | — | 203,321as Alan | 1 in 1K | 207K | Aaron | 115 |
| GB United Kingdom | #158 | ≈67,000 est. | ≈1 in 983 | 14 | Aaron | 359 |
| PL Poland | #296 | 53,215as Alan | 1 in 719 | 53K | אהרן | 16 |
| AU Australia | #107 | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 649 | 195 | Aaron | 325 |
| HU Hungary | — | 21,727as Áron | 1 in 450 | 22K | Arron | 10 |
| SE Sweden | — | 18,422as Allan | 1 in 554 | 18K | Aaron | 79 |
| DK Denmark | #898 | 16,095as Allan | 1 in 365 | 16K | Aaron | 65 |
| IL Israel | #30 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 851 | 5.3K | אהרן | 106 |
| FI Finland | — | 10,012as Allan | 1 in 556 | 20K | Arun | 59 |
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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Arán is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Hungarian, superessive singular of ara
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Irish, bread
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.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 2 sources across 1 country.
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Arán mean, and where does it come from?
- blackthorn Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Arán 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.
- Where is Arán most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Arán itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Denmark's: the national register counts about 1 in 365 people named Allan.
- How common is the name Arán?
- In the United States, the national register counted 494,237 people named Aaron in 2020, about 1 in 673 residents.
- How common is Arán compared with other names?
- In the United States, Arán is the 119th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/ar%C3%A1nThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Arán” — the 119th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.