Yaron
Yaron is a Hebrew name meaning "is full of joy", "will be full of joy", or "to shout, to sing". It is common in Israel as both a male first name and a surname. Its English-language equivalent is Jaron.
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Yaron
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Yaron is a Hebrew name meaning "is full of joy", "will be full of joy", or "to shout, to sing". It is common in Israel as both a male first name and a surname. Its English-language equivalent is Jaron.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hebrew
The Story of Yaron
American parents first put Yaron on the record books as a baby boy name in 1967, with 9 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2014, when 14 Yarons were born — ranking #5,996 that year. About 25% of every Yaron on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Yaron last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 284 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Yaron
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About the name Yaron
Yaron is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1967 and has accumulated 284 births in the dataset. Yaron's peak popularity came in 2014 when it ranked #5,996. Use the chart and map above to compare Yaron's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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