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masculine · English origin
Aaron is an English and widely adopted European form of the Hebrew name Aharon, whose exact meaning is uncertain; proposed etymologies include "high mountain," "exalted," or a possible Egyptian origin. In the Hebrew Bible, Aaron is the elder brother of Moses and the first high priest of the Israelites, making the name deeply significant in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. The name passed into Latin and Greek as Aaron through the Septuagint and Vulgate, which carried it into virtually all Western European languages. Variant forms across languages include Aäron in Dutch and Aarón in Spanish.