Aaron (first name)
Aaron or Aarón is a male given name .
Origin and meaning
The name can be found in the Old Testament . Accordingly, the elder brother of Moses and first high priest was named Aaron ( Hebrew אַהֲרֹן Aharon ). He is considered to be the founder of the Aaronic Priesthood and namesake of the Aaronic Blessing . The origin of the name is possibly Egyptian and means "enlightened, mountain man, (great) fighter, hero", possibly also "the name (of God) is great". According to another theory, it is said to be an originally Hebrew name ( Hebrew אַהֲלוֹן, ahǎlôn "tent man") act. This is said to have made a sound change from l to r in Egyptian .
Aaron is also a family name. The Islamic variant of the name is Harun .
For Aaron's medieval iconography, see the individual reference.
distribution
Before 1984 the name Aaron hardly appeared in Germany. Only then did its popularity increase. Since 2004 the name has consistently been in the top 100 most popular names.
variants
- Aron (e.g. Scandinavian, Polish )
- Áron ( Czech , Hungarian , Slovak )
- Aarón ( Galician , Spanish )
- Finnish aaro
- Italian Aronne
- Dutch Aäron
- Russian Аарон
Family names: Aaron or Aharon
name day
Name bearer
A name
- Aaron (biblical person) , biblical person
- Aaron von Caerleon († 304), English martyr
- Aaron (hermit) , hermit, supposedly first bishop of Aleth
- Aaron of Alexandria , Alexandrian physician
- Aaron of Auxerre († around 813), Bishop of Auxerre
- Aaron of St. Martin in Cologne († 1052), Abbot of St. Martin in Cologne
- Aaron of Cracow († 1059), Archbishop of Cracow
- Aaron von Lincoln († 1186), English financier
- Aaron von Pesaro († 1563), Italian businessman and scientist
- Aaron , Khazarian ruler, see Khazars #The rise of the Rus
Aaron, Aarón
- Aaron Allston (1960–2014), American writer
- Aaron Altaras (* 1995), German actor
- Aaron Antonovsky (1923–1994), American-Israeli sociologist
- Aaron Ashmore (* 1979), Canadian actor
- Aaron Rechja di Modena († 1639), Italian Kabbalist
- Aaron Brewer (born 1990), American football player
- Aaron Burr (1756–1836), American politician
- Aaron Carter (* 1987), American singer
- Aaron Clapham (* 1987), New Zealand soccer player
- Aaron Connolly (* 2000), Irish football player
- Aaron Copland (1900–1990), American composer
- Aaron ben David Cohen of Ragusa († 1656), rabbi and merchant in Ragusa
- Aarón Dian Darias Scheithe (* 1982), German-Spanish soccer player, see Aarón (soccer player, 1982)
- Aaron Donkor (* 1995), German-Ghanaian American football and basketball player
- Aaron Eckhart (* 1968), American actor
- Aaron Franken (* 1976), Aruban pool player
- Aarón Galindo (* 1982), Mexican soccer player
- Aarón Gamal (* 1961), Mexican soccer player
- Aaron Gustavson (* 1986), American poker player
- Aaron Hart (1670–1756), rabbi in London
- Aaron Hickey (* 2002), Scottish soccer player
- Aaron Hunt (* 1986), German soccer player
- Aaron Hyman (1863–1937), rabbi and author
- Aaron ben Joseph , Karaean scribe
- Aaron Ibn Chajjim (1545–1632), Jewish scholar and author
- Aaron Kimmel (* ≈1990), American jazz musician
- Aaron Klug (1926–2018), British biochemist and molecular biologist
- Aaron Krickstein (* 1967), American tennis player
- Aaron Kyle (born 1954), American football player
- Aaron Mermelstein (* 1987), American poker player
- Aaron Neville (born 1941), American singer
- Aaron Nimzowitsch (1886–1935), Latvian chess player and theorist
- Aaron Novik (* 1974), American jazz musician
- Aaron Ogden (1756–1839), American politician
- Aaron Palushaj (* 1989), American ice hockey player
- Aaron Parks (* 1983), American jazz pianist
- Aaron Paul (* 1979), American actor
- Aaron Rodgers (born 1983), American football player
- Aaron Rufer (* 1995), German actor
- Aaron Schneider (* 1965), American director and cameraman
- Aaron Slight (* 1966), New Zealand motorcycle racer
- Aaron Solowoniuk (* 1974), Canadian drummer
- Aaron Spelling (1923-2006), American film and television producer
- Aaron Swartz (1986-2013), American programmer
- Aaron Turner (* 1977), American singer, musician, graphic designer and label owner
- Aaron Van Blarcum (* 1976), American entrepreneur and poker player
- Aaron Van Cleave (* 1987), Canadian-American figure skater
- Aarón Villegas (* 1980), Spanish cyclist
- Aaron Wan-Bissaka (born 1997), English football player
As an intermediate name:
- Elvis Aaron Presley (1935–1977), American singer, musician and actor
- Jason Aaron Hammel (* 1982), American baseball player
- John Aaron Lewis (1920–2001), American jazz musician
- John Aaron Rawlins (1831-1869), American general
Aron, Aron
- Aron Alexandrowitsch Solz (1872–1945), Russian lawyer
- Aron Anderson (* 1988), Swedish adventurer
- Arón Canet (* 1999), Spanish motorcycle racer
- Aron Eisenberg (1969-2019), American actor
- Aron Elias Seligmann (1747–1824), German court factor
- Aron Freimann (1871–1948), German bibliographer
- Aron Friedmann (1855–1936), cantor and composer
- Aron Gurwitsch (1901–1973), American philosopher
- Aron Hersch Żupnik (1848–1917), Austrian writer
- Aron Israel Brimann (1859–1934), Romanian author
- Aron Jóhannsson (* 1990), American football player
- Aron Liechti (* 1986), Swiss football player
- Aron Naumowitsch Trainin (1883–1957), Soviet lawyer
- Aron Pálmarsson (* 1990), Icelandic handball player
- Aron Ralston (* 1975), American mountaineer
- Aron Schmidhuber (* 1947), German football referee
- Aron Schöpfer (* 1960), German soccer player
- Aron Sigfrid Forsius (1569–1624), Finnish astronomer and priest
- Aron Tiranul († June 1597), Moldovan ruler
- Aron von Kangeq (1822–1869), Greenlandic painter and storyteller
- Aron Winter (* 1967), Dutch football player
Middle name:
- Meïr Aron Goldschmidt (1819–1887), German publisher and journalist
Aharon, Ahron
- Aharon Almog (* 1931), Israeli writer, poet and playwright
- Aharon Appelfeld (1932-2018), Israeli writer
- Aharon Barak (* 1936), Israeli lawyer
- Ahron Daum (1951–2018), Israeli Judaist and rabbi
- Aharon Davidi (1927–2012), Israeli brigadier general
- Aharon Dolgopolsky (1930–2012), Russian-Israeli linguist
- Aharon David Gordon (1856-1922), writer
- Aharon Avraham Kabak (1880-1944), writer
- Aharon Megged (1920–2016), Israeli writer, playwright and publicist
- Aharon Jehuda Leib Shteinman (1913–2017), Israeli rabbi and Posek
Fictional people
- Character from the drama Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare : Here Aaron is a ruthless and unscrupulous character with coarse, powerful language - a black man who fathered a child with the Gothic queen Tamora, while she was already the wife of the Roman emperor Saturnin.
- Main character in the first novel by John Knittel : The Travels of Aaron West 1919 (Eng. The journeys of Aaron West / Captain West, 1922)
- Character in the novel Jenseits von Eden by the writer John Steinbeck , spelling changed: Aron; filmed in 1955 by Elia Kazan with James Dean : Beyond Eden (film)
See also
literature
- Manfred Görg : Aaron - from a title to a name. In: Biblische Notizen 32 (1986), pp. 11-17.
- Michael M. Homan: A Tensile Etymology for Aaron: 'aharon <' ahalon. In: Biblische Notizen 95 (1998), pp. 21-22.
Web links
Wikisource: Aaron - Article of the 4th edition of Meyers Konversations-Lexikon
Wiktionary: Aaron - explanations of meanings, origins of words, synonyms, translations
- Koenen, Klaus: Aaron / Aaroniden. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Duden: The large first name dictionary. Dudenverlag, Mannheim a. a. 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 , p. 35.
- ↑ Aaron at babynamespedia.com
- ↑ a b K. Koenen: Aaron / Aaroniden. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
- ^ Karl Möller: Aaron , in: Reallexikon zur Deutschen Kunstgeschichte, Vol. I (1933), Sp. 6-11; in: RDK Labor, accessed: February 25, 2015
- ^ First name Aaron * Statistics and meaning. Retrieved June 21, 2017 .
- ↑ Aron on www.behindthename.com (Engl.)
- ↑ Aron on www.vornamen-weltweit.de