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 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
Top boys' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 218,837 of them was named Aran, which outranked 33.3% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,641,837 boys got a published name in 1978; 1 in 109,456 of them was named Aran, which outranked 58.6% of the 6,762 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,669Yechiel16
- #2,669Zoran16
- #2,669Zuri16
- #2,799Aran15
- #2,799Aloysius15
- #2,799Alpha15
- #2,799Americo15
- #2,929Adolphus14
- #2,929Agustine14
- #2,929Alim14
Tied with 129 names at #2,799; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.