Arun

given name · Hindi · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Arun is a given name, most frequently recorded in India, where it is the 69th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Hindi and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘reddish-brown’, the colour of dawn, gold, and rubies, and personification of the dawn, the charioteer of the sun.

rarermore common
  • FRFrance1 in 134◐
  • IEIreland1 in 365
  • DKDenmark1 in 365

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈1.4M ●

across 12 countries

#250 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
582 ●

6.4M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 134 ◐

France

Spellings & scripts●

AaronLatin · English●4.3M records
אהרוןHebrew · Hebrew●149K records
অরুনBengali · Bangla●4.6K records
อลันThai · Thai●1.2K records
아론Hangul · Korean●512 records
ଅରୁଣOdia · Odia●108 records
ᲐარონGeorgian · Georgian●80 records
ԱհարոնArmenian · Armenian●6 records
АаронCyrillic · Tajik●4 records
අරනSinhala · Sinhala●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Aaron in US United States, FR France, GB United Kingdom and 19 more, אהרון in IL Israel, PL Poland, Arron in HU Hungary and Aran in TR Türkiye.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Sanskrit: ‘reddish-brown’, the colour of dawn, gold, and rubies, and personification of the dawn, the charioteer of the sun. Feminine form: Aruna.

Sources 1

  • A concise dictionary of first names

Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Arun is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
IN India#693,420,8441.3M rec.—1.6KArun306
FR France#454506,990△34K rec.1 in 134507KAaron265
US United States#115491,5713.8M rec.1 in 677492KAaron582
GB United Kingdom#167215,198154K rec.—4Aaron277
AU Australia#97214,137134K rec.—195Aaron310
AR Argentina#420210,09891K rec.—5.1KAaron79
BR Brazil—203,321△8.2K rec.1 in 1K207KAaron116
MX Mexico#265174,729129K rec.—256Aaron202
IL Israel#68125,428187K rec.—4.9Kאהרון97
CA Canada#14390,99271K rec.—41Aaron245
PH Philippines#31669,47036K rec.—listedAaron151
PL Poland—53,215△3.9K rec.1 in 71953Kאהרון18

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Hindi3.2M73%
  • 677K16%
  • English136K3%
  • Bangla63K1%
  • Vietnamese40K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Hindi3,174,62373%
677,41816%
English135,8333%
Bangla63,2921%
Vietnamese40,2861%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Arun is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name700K records spelled Arun4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Arūn, Aruṇ, Arün

  • English given name163K records spelled Arun42 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, Australia, United Kingdom

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Aruen, Arúñ, Àrúñ, Aŕuň, Arūñ

  • Russian given name5.9K records spelled Arun44 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Russia, Poland, United States

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Арун, Аран, Aran, Ârùñ, Arañ

  • Tamil given name606 records spelled Arun20 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India

    Languages: Tamil, Malayalam

    Also written അരുൺ, அருண், Vijay, அருண, Aruna

  • a separate given name382 records spelled Arun8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, United States, United Kingdom

    Also written Årûñ, Àruñ, Ârûñ, Ãrūñ, Ãruñ

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Arun is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, aus Indien stammender männl. Vom. (sanskrit. aruna »rötlich braun, die Farbe der

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In English, A local government district of West Sussex, England.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In ang, Northumbrian form of earon

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Yoruba, disease, illness

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In its, mouth

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K20K19001920194019601980200019K · 1993

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Arun in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1899–2017
Yearrecords
189916
19006
19132
19144
19166
19178
19188
191917
1920113
192131
192231
1923110
192432
192522
192611
192718
192815
192933
193012
193130
193235
193330
193461
193555
193656
193786
193890
1939142
1940176
1941218
1942274
1943311
1944414
1945448
1946517
1947828
1948622
1949622
19501,196
19511,291
19521,672
19531,189
19541,906
19552,154
19562,282
19573,201
19583,122
19593,995
19604,020
19614,200
19626,080
19635,228
19646,237
19656,474
19666,820
19677,924
19687,208
19697,700
19709,061
19718,428
197210,178
19739,394
197410,763
197510,542
197611,431
197710,426
197810,664
197911,289
19808,092
198112,537
198215,205
198315,639
198417,412
198516,183
198612,817
198717,383
198815,808
198915,317
199015,408
199116,686
199218,223
199319,351
199416,536
199515,108
19968,257
19977,778
19984,884
1999408
200019
200110
20029
20031
20051
200714
20082,240
20098
20101,107
2011208
2012238
2013182
20143,650
2015700
20164
20175

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 104 years between 1899–2017. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1920194019601980Uttam Kumar, b. 1926Arun Manilal Gandhi, b. 1934Arun Kumar Biswas, b. 1934Arun Shourie, b. 1941Arun Bali, b. 1942Arun Nehru, b. 1944Arun Netravali, b. 1946Arun Jaitley, b. 1952Arun Govil, b. 1958Arun Vijay, b. 1977

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 74 sources across 38 countries.

Official registers attesting Arun
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20206.5K#3,239
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020201.6K#17,196
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—1.6K#3,853
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010429#49,087
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—338#3,271
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—335#3,641
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)2026274#1,044
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—240#1,088
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—202#3,462
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020152—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—142#11,895
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—131#5,861

Reference works 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 489 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Arun?
We estimate roughly 1.4 million people bear Arun (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Arun have the most bearers?
Arun is most frequently recorded in India, where it is most often spelled arun.
Where is Arun most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Arun is densest in France — about 1 in 134 people — even though India holds more of our records for it.
How common is Arun compared with other names?
In India, Arun is the 69th most common given name of 4,777,337 given names recorded there.
Is Arun a male or female name?
Arun is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Arun mean?
Recorded meaning: Sanskrit: ‘reddish-brown’, the colour of dawn, gold, and rubies, and personification of the dawn, the charioteer of the sun.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Arun” — the 69th most common given name in India. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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