Given name & surname
Yaron
“to lift one's voice in praise”
Yaron is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “to lift one's voice in praise.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “to lift one's voice in praise.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1967. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yaron through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 295
- 295 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 14 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,226 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,226 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 14 in 2014. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 670 as a first name in 2020; 215 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.
Yaron’s family of names
Yaron has a related form in Yarone. Yaron has a related form in Yaronn. Yaron has a related form in Yarron.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Yaron
- Yaron Brookpolitical activistborn 1961
- Yaron ShaniIsraeli film directorborn 1973
- Yaron HermanIsraeli pianistborn 1981
- Yaron LondonIsraeli journalist, actor and songwriterborn 1940
- Yaron MazuzIsraeli politicianborn 1962
- Yaron ZilbermanIsraeli film producerborn 1966
- Yaron MatrasBritish linguistborn 1963
- Yaron ZelekhaIsraeli economistborn 1970
- Yaron LeviIsraeli politicianborn 1981
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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