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Beren

#3,187 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Strong, smart

Beren has been given to 401 babies in the U.S. since 1980. In 2025 it ranked #3,187 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 37 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 81% boys, 19% girls all-time.

Babies named Beren, 2025

1 in 89,600

Beren 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Beren over time

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

19802025

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.

Beren: meaning, origin, and history

Strong, smart

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Beren means

Beren means “strong, smart”.

Origin, language, and formation

Beren is used in Turkish.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 325 boys were recorded with the name Beren between 1980 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 37 in 2025; its best national rank was #3,187 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #5,264 in 2020 to #3,187 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,033 in 2015 to #3,187 in 2025.

In the United States, 76 girls were recorded with the name Beren between 2011 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 9 in 2015; its best national rank was #10,401 in 2024.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Beren?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 46,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,187
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Beren 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Beren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Berens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Beren was born before 2017 — so the typical Beren is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
325
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.5% of all recorded uses (138).

Is Beren 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
+899
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+2,077
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,846
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.64×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (37)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,187
2025

Spellings of Beren

Beren is not the most common spelling — Derek is, with 27.3% against Beren'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 Beren is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Beren was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

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. Beren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Beren is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Beren was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 739,616 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Beren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Beren around the world

Where Beren 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
    1996–2025
    #2,952
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2025–2025
    #762
    in 2025
  • France
    2007–2025
    #4,429
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1980–2010
    #754
    in 2010

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

Beren by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,187
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 2,077
Best rank ever
#3,187
2025
Peak year
2025
37 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
325
Count in 2025
37

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,401
2024
Peak year
2015
9 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
76
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Beren

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

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Sibling names for Beren

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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