# Baron (surname)

Source: https://namelineage.com/surname/baron/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. Counts from the US Census Bureau; origin and etymology from Wiktionary; bearers from Wikidata. Data updated 2026-11-11.

A surname from French

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Origin | French |
| Type | not recorded |
| People in the US (2010 Census) | 16,308 |
| US rank (2010) | 2,234 of 162,253 |
| How often | about 1 in every 18,932 people |
| Change since 2000 | +5.5% (15,464 in 2000) |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |

## Etymology

* As a French, English, Jewish, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Czech, German, Spanish (Barón), Romanian, Serbo-Croatian, and Breton surname, all from the noun baron. Compare Barron, Lebaron. * Also as a French surname, from several places in France Le Baron. * As an Italian (Veneto) surname, variant of Barone. * Also as a Czech surname (Baroň), from a pet form of Bartoloměj. * As an Irish surname, Anglicized from Ó Bearáin; see Barnes. * General Slavic surname: Anglicization of Polish Baran (“Aries”), Ukrainian Баран (Baran), etc.

## Who carries it

Share of people named Baron in the 2010 US Census by the Census's own race and ethnicity groups. The Census suppresses a share when the count behind it is small.

| Group | Share |
|---|---|
| White (not Hispanic) | 81% |
| Black (not Hispanic) | 3.8% |
| Hispanic or Latino (any race) | 12% |
| Asian and Pacific Islander | 2.4% |
| American Indian and Alaska Native | 0.1% |
| Two or more races | 1.6% |

## Where

Wikidata records people named Baron in the United States, South Africa, Belgium and Germany.

## People named Baron

- Joey Baron, American avant-garde jazz drummer
- Billy Baron, American basketball player (born 1990)
- Salo Wittmayer Baron, American historian (1895–1989)
- Sandy Baron, American actor (1937–2001)
- Martin Baron, American journalist
- Emile Baron, Association footballer
- Théodore Baron, Belgian painter (1840-1899)
- Britt Baron, American actress
- Jimmy Baron, American basketball player (born 1986)
- Hannelore Baron, artist (1926–1987)

## Similar surnames

Brown, Barron, Browne, Barney, Barone, Byron, Baran, Barna, Biron, Bran, Breon, Baroni.

## How to read these numbers

A Census count is people alive and counted in 2010, not births, and names occurring fewer than 100 times are not published at all. Ethnicity shares are the Census's own categories.