Family name origins & meanings
- Spanish (Varón) and Jewish (Sephardic) : nickname from varón ‘man’ (from Latin varo, varonis). This is often a Castilianized form of the Catalan equivalent, Baró.
- Galician (Varón) and Jewish (Sephardic) : in some cases, possibly a habitational name from any of several places in Ourense province (Galicia) named Varón.
- French : from the old German personal name Waro (from wara ‘protection’).
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic) : from the personal name Aron.