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Aemon

Boy · AY-mon · Modern

Aemon is a boys' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).

What does Aemon mean?

Modern: invented for A Song of Ice and Fire, echoing Irish Eamon

Maester Aemon is the blind, wise old Targaryen at the Wall in George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire.

Say it
AY-mon

Is Aemon a girl's or a boy's name?

Aemon is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Aemon in the US?

Rank in 2025
#6,442among boys
Babies in 2025
13about 1 in 130,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Aemon, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 24 boys. It first appears in the records in 2004.

Half of all the boys named Aemon in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 254 boys in the US were given Aemon or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #858, up from #6,442 for this spelling alone.

2004Busiest: 24 in 20192025
Aemon in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202513#6,442
202413#6,464
202310#7,733
20226#10,855
20219#8,161
202010#7,497
201924#4,226
20189#8,150
201712#6,681
201614#6,048
201510#7,486
20146#10,711
20135#12,129
20126#10,763
20110–
20105#12,224
20090–
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20046#9,941

Names like Aemon

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Aemon

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