Given name & surname · also French
Aoun
Aoun is a surname from French, ultimately from Arabic. It is used in English and French.
Original Arabicعون
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Aoun comes from French, and ultimately from Arabic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In English usage, Aoun as a surname developed from عون.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2017. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aoun through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 27
- 27 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2021
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,000 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Aoun’s family of names
In English usage, Aoun as a surname developed from the Arabic form عون. In Greek usage, Aoun as a surname is a transliteration of Αούν. In English usage, Aoun as a surname has a conventional equivalent in the Arabic form عون.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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