Given name & surname
Arona
“one who is colorful and viva- CiOuS”
Arona is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “one who is colorful and viva- CiOuS.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “one who is colorful and viva- CiOuS.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1924. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Arona through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 6 boys · 15 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 6 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 6 in 2014. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 257 as a first name in 2020; 125 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.
Arona’s family of names
Arona has a related form in Aronah. Arona has a related form in Aronna. Arona has a related form in Aronnah.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 2
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Arona
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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