girls:
4.4k births since 1914
#2590 (55th percentile)
boys:
606.1k births since 1880
#53 (99th percentile)
overall:
610.4k births since 1880
#96 (99th percentile)
The name Aaron is the #96 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 610,436 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #53 (98.9% percentile) for all time with 606,066 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #2,590 (54.7% percentile) for all time with 4,370 births since 1914.
Aaron has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1914 for girls).
The name Aaron has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Aaron reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 96.5% percentile (ranked #28) with 7,058 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 7,889 births per million (ranked 95.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Aaron ranks #66 for boys (92.9% percentile) with 2,485 births per million, which is 31.5% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Aaron reached its peak popularity in 1983, achieving the 21.6% percentile (ranked #608) with 96 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 98 births per million (ranked 19.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Aaron ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aaron".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Aaron. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.3% confident that Aaron is pronounced as EH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-ruhn, at 18.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.
For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.
The raw pronunciations shown (like EH1 R AH0 N) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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