Baron
About 7,059 American babies have been named Baron since 1912, most of them around 2008. In 2025 it ranked 1,370th. About 6,200 Barons are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 26.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Baron
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,059
- Estimated living today
- 6,200
- Median age today
- 26
- Peak year
- 2008
- Best rank
- 995th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,370th
- First recorded
- 1912
How old the living Barons are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,059 babies given the name since 1912, about 6,200 are alive — 88 in every hundred. Roughly 2,400 of them are children and 520 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1999 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Barons
- Baron d'Holbach (1723–1789)German-born French philosopher
- Baron Munchausen (1720–1797)German nobleman
- Baron Waqa (born 1959)Nauruan politician
- Baron Davis (born 1979)American basketball player
- Baron Corbin (born 1984)American professional wrestler
- Baron Alexander von Bach (1813–1893)Austrian politician
- Baron Wilhelm von Biela (1782–1856)Austrian astronomer
- Baron Franz von der Trenck (1711–1749)Austrian soldier
People named Baron with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Baron is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Baron is most concentrated in Hawaii (3.1×), California (2.7×), Texas (2.5×), Florida (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2008
The most popular boys’ names the year Baron peaked:
Baron elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Baron | 67 | 2,741st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Baron among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Baron | — | 6 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Baron against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.