Given name & surname
Aro
“poor ground; wet meadow; muddy ground”
Aro is a surname. It is used in Spanish and Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Aro goes back to a word meaning “poor ground; wet meadow; muddy ground.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2009. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Aro through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 109
- 109 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 15
- #5,881 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +146%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 15 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 5,881 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 765 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.
Aro’s family of names
In Armenian usage, Aro is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Արո. In Greek usage, Aro as a surname is a transliteration of Άρο.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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