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Aren

#2,080 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Aren has been given to 2,595 babies in the U.S. since 1925. In 2025 it ranked #2,080 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 84 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 87% boys, 13% girls all-time.

Babies named Aren, 2025

1 in 46,700

Aren over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Aren over time

In 2025, Aren went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19252025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Aren: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning uncertain in the cited reference

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Aren means

Aren is a given name.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,247 boys were recorded with the name Aren between 1925 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 84 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,653 in 1996.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #2,191 in 2020 to #2,080 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,722 in 2015 to #2,080 in 2025.

In the United States, 348 girls were recorded with the name Aren between 1946 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 20 in 1997; its best national rank was #4,937 in 1957.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Aren?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 46,700
71 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 24,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,080
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
32,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Aren sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5001%

Put another way: gather 32,366 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Aren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Arens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Aren was born before 2006 — so the typical Aren is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
24.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
63.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
2,242
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2010s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (549).

Is Aren rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−188
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+111
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+642
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.61×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.5%
Peak was 2024 (84)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,653
1996

Spellings of Aren

Aren is not the most common spelling — Aaron is, with 11.8% against Aren's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Aren is used

Across 2016–2025, Aren was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 8,333 boys, against 1 in 19,055 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in 50,000).

212 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 8,333
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 16,667
  3. 3Florida1 in 33,333
  4. 4Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  5. 5Maryland1 in 50,000
  6. 6New York1 in 50,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 50,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Aren around the world

Where Aren ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1997–2025
    #716
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2004–2004
    #490
    in 2004
  • Ireland
    2025–2025
    #577
    in 2025
  • France
    2013–2025
    #1,758
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,105
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1970–2012
    #771
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Aren

People whose public names include Aren, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Aren by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,080
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 111
Best rank ever
#1,653
1996
Peak year
2024
84 that year
First recorded
1925
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,247
Count in 2025
71

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,937
1957
Peak year
1997
20 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
348
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Aren

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

ErenWrenAresArekArelTyrenRenAregAreebEvrenKyrenGarenBrenOrenJarrenJarenTorenAhrenOrrenAarenGarrenEfrenKamrenKaren

Names with a curve like Aren

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Aren, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AharonNaeemNaimKekoaCaineKeoniGiorgioMuhammedYehoshuaTamirAdnanAj

Sibling names for Aren

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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