Aran
Last seen for girls in 1998 at #10,122 · #3,128 for boys in 2025, 38 births
Given to boys 97.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1971 · 17 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 974since 1969
Aran over time
Rank among boys' names. Aran has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,128 | 38 | |
| 2024 | — | #3,605 | 31 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,347 | 35 | |
| 2022 | — | #3,278 | 36 | |
| 2021 | — | #6,698 | 12 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,811 | 27 | |
| 2019 | — | #3,347 | 34 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,891 | 27 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,518 | 31 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,470 | 22 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,407 | 22 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,532 | 30 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,313 | 22 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,371 | 32 | |
| 2011 | — | #3,792 | 27 | |
| 2010 | — | #4,366 | 22 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,160 | 24 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,561 | 30 | |
| 2007 | — | #4,243 | 23 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,888 | 25 | |
| 2005 | — | #4,326 | 20 | |
| 2004 | — | #3,860 | 23 | |
| 2003 | — | #4,114 | 20 | |
| 2002 | — | #4,703 | 16 | |
| 2001 | — | #6,445 | 10 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,573 | 16 | |
| 1999 | — | #4,762 | 14 | |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #5,466 | 11 |
| 1997 | — | #5,288 | 11 | |
| 1996 | — | #5,982 | 9 | |
| 1995 | — | #6,992 | 7 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,911 | 16 | |
| 1993 | — | #5,360 | 10 | |
| 1992 | — | #6,670 | 7 | |
| 1991 | — | #4,231 | 13 | |
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| 1989 | — | #5,165 | 9 | |
| 1988 | — | #3,915 | 12 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | — | #4,130 | 10 | |
| 1985 | — | #4,052 | 10 | |
| 1984 | — | #3,701 | 11 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,141 | 9 |
| 1982 | — | #4,234 | 9 | |
| 1981 | — | #3,858 | 10 | |
| 1980 | — | #3,838 | 10 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,068 | 9 | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #2,799 | 15 |
| 1977 | #7,567 | 7 | #2,791 | 15 |
| 1976 | — | #3,264 | 11 | |
| 1975 | — | #2,902 | 13 | |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
| 1973 | — | #2,857 | 12 | |
| 1972 | — | #3,152 | 10 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | — | #3,062 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aran! It came in at #3,062, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1990, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aran
- 477 spots since 2024 (#3,605 → #3,128)
- 683 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #3,128)
- 1,279 spots since 2015 (#4,407 → #3,128)
- Debuted 1969
- Peaked 1971 at #2,279 (17 births)
- Births halved by 1987, 16 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 44,949 boys born in 2025 were named Aran (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,279 in 1971, was only 1 in 104,026 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 27.6% of all boys named Aran (269) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 9 | #3,062 (1969) | #3,062 |
| 1970s | 117 | #2,279 (1971) | #3,190 |
| 1980s | 95 | #3,701 (1984) | #4,399 |
| 1990s | 98 | #3,911 (1994) | #5,407 |
| 2000s | 207 | #3,561 (2008) | #4,387 |
| 2010s | 269 | #3,347 (2019) | #3,901 |
| 2020s | 179 | #3,128 (2025) | #3,978 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aran in 1971
Top boys' names in 1971
More about 1971
boys
1,768,447 boys got a published name in 1971; 1 in 104,026 of them was named Aran, which outranked 59.7% of the 5,655 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 26.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,203Tremain18
- #2,203Wilberto18
- #2,203Yves18
- #2,279Aran17
- #2,279Ajay17
- #2,279Alaric17
- #2,279Alvino17
- #2,366Adelbert16
- #2,366Antron16
- #2,366Arick16
Tied with 86 names at #2,279; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.