Agron refers to two surnames with the same spelling, one Jewish and one Hispanic.
[1] As such, there are two origins, the Hebrew Agron (אגרון) and (with Slavic suffix) Agronsky,[2][3] and the Spanish and Galician Agrón.
[2] In the United States, the surname is transliterated from "Ahron" in Eastern Europe usage,[1] though "Agron" and "Ogron" were commonly used in Russia.
[3] Talmudic scholar Heinrich Guggenheimer suggested that "Agron" and "Agronsky", as well as "Agrin", were variations on "Agranoff"; not knowing the origin, the Guggenheimers wrote these and similar names were perhaps patronymics of Agra, a word in the Talmud meaning "reward".
[4] The Hispanic name is a habitational surname, directly meaning "by the dry ground"[5] and deriving from two towns of the same name, one in A Coruña and one in Granada.