The Aragon surname
In the 2000 U.S. Census, 20,723 people carried this name — #1,588 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 13,000 people counted.
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In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 733 people named Aragon.
84 of them were born outside France. Those born in France came from 54 départements, most often Var.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
94 people named Aragon live in Switzerland.
They live in 8 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Geneva.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In print
Aragon in American newspapers,
1914–1915.
Chronicling America, Library of Congress — digitised newspapers in the public domain · 39,929 pages in all carry the name.
Who carried it
People named Aragon,
with a public archive behind them.
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Louis Aragon 1897–1982 · writer -
Art Aragon 1927–2008 · actor -
Mary Allen Wilkes 1937– · lawyer -
Ana Higueras 1944– · teacher -
Rita Aragon 1947– · military officer
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 43 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Aragon.
- Aquino 18,472 · U.S. census
- Ara 530 · U.S. census
- Arab 362 · U.S. census
- Arabi 167 · U.S. census
- Arabian 446 · U.S. census
- Arago 133 · U.S. census
- Aragones 405 · U.S. census
- Arakelian 1,142 · U.S. census
- Arambel 107 · U.S. census
- Aramburu 277 · U.S. census
- Aramini 157 · U.S. census
- Aran 275 · U.S. census
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