Baron
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Servant in a baron’s household; from the medieval male personal name Baron; from Irish Gaelic Ó Beirdin; or an invented Jewish name perhaps based on the word for baron
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/bæɹən/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Baron 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 87th most common surname.
- COColombia≈1 in 2.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 8.2K
- ESSpain1 in 11K
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 Baron 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)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 453 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,437,026 named Brown, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Colombia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled בראון in IL Israel, PL Poland and Braun in FR France.
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)
Servant in a baron’s household; from the medieval male personal name Baron; from Irish Gaelic Ó Beirdin; or an invented Jewish name perhaps based on the word for baron.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
How Baron is read(measured from records)
Baron is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English44%
Servant in a baron’s household; from the medieval male personal name Baron; from Irish Gaelic Ó Beirdin; or an invented Jewish name perhaps based on the word for baron.
as a nameEncyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
from EME/OFr barun, 'baron', often a nickname for a proud or haughty person; first attested Lefuine Barun c1095 Bury (Sf)
as a nameA Dictionary of English Surnames
The male ruler of a barony.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Spanish24%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Baron in Spanish.
- French19%
baron, lord, noble landowner
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Baron 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 | — | 1,437,026as Brown | 1 in 231 | 1.4M | Baron | 453 |
| PL Poland | — | 41,126as Baran | 1 in 931 | 21K | בראון | 5 |
| FR France | — | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.2K | 2.6K | Braun | 7 |
| CO Colombia | #280 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.7K | 18 | Baron | 133 |
| PH Philippines | #406 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 8.2K | — | Baron | 78 |
| ES Spain | #852 | 4,417 | 1 in 11K | 4.4K | Baron | 124 |
| IL Israel | #87 | 3,321as בראון | 1 in 2.6K | 3.3K | בראון | 72 |
| VC St. Vincent & Grenadines | — | 1,764as Browne | 1 in 57 | 1.9K | — | — |
| GY Guyana | — | 1,217as Browne | 1 in 616 | 1.2K | — | 2 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 1,083as Browne | 1 in 50 | 1.2K | — | 7 |
1,437,026 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling brown. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); the co-datosgov-candidates register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Electoral Office of St Vincent & the Grenadines — Final Voters List (Nov 2025); The page lists the most common surnames in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines based on data from official sources.; St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026; The page presents a detailed list of surnames in Saint Kitts and Nevis, focusing on their frequency and cultural signifi; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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)
Baron 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.
Coming from bar Aron, son of a priestly family. Bar Aaron
as a nameThe Origin of Jewish Family Names: Morphology and History
From the title of nobility, along the lines of Earl andpDuke. The title arose in the Norman feudal system and seems to be of Germanic origin, derived from Old English beorn ‘young warrior’ or a related continental Germanic form. In part the given name, and in particular the variant Barron, may represent the surname derived from the title.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
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)
- Aron Baronb. 1891RURussian anarchist (1891-1937)
- Salo W. Baronb. 1895USAmerican historian (1895–1989)
- Sandy Baronb. 1937USAmerican actor (1937–2001)
- Lynda Baronb. 1939GBEnglish actress
- Joanne Baronb. 1953USAmerican actress
- Martin Baronb. 1954USAmerican journalist
- Fred Baronb. 1954USAmerican film producer (born 1954)
- Caroline Baronb. 1961USAmerican film producer and philanthropist
- Yamazaki Baronb. 1971JPJapanese seiyū
- Billy Baronb. 1990USAmerican basketball player (born 1990)
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 83 sources across 43 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 16K | #2,234 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 16K | #2,288 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 15K | #2,152 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 4.4K | #1,191 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 4.4K | #1,191 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.6K | #954 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 2.6K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 2.5K | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2.5K | #969 |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 18 | #98 |
| GY Guyana | Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025 | 2025 | 7 | #618 |
Reference works 11
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Hoffman, Polish Surnames: Origins and Meanings (2nd ed., 2012)
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
- Søndergaard, Georg, Danske efternavne (Lademann 1984/1991)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 Baron mean, and where does it come from?
- Servant in a baron’s household; from the medieval male personal name Baron; from Irish Gaelic Ó Beirdin; or an invented Jewish name perhaps based on the word for baron. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Baron have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.4 million people named Brown, more than in any other country we hold.
- What are other forms of the name Baron?
- In the etymology graph, Baronet is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Baron?
- A machine transcription gives /bæɹən/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Baron?
- In Spain, the national register counted 4,417 people named Baron, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Baron compared with other names?
- In Israel, Baron is the 87th most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/baronThe 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, “Baron” — the 87th most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.