Ehren
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ehren has been given to 1,203 babies in the U.S. since 1968. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 62 recorded.
Babies named Ehren, 2024
1 in 371,000
Ehren over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ehren?
Ehren had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 371,000
- 9 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 191,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 257,451 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ehren sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 257,451 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ehren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ehrens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ehren was born before 1987 — so the typical Ehren is around 38 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 27.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,186
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (330).
Is Ehren 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1980 (62)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.9% average annual change
Spellings of Ehren
Ehren is not the most common spelling — Loren is, with 27.4% against Ehren's 0.70%.
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 Ehren is used
Across 1910–2025, Ehren was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 499,043 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 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. Ehren has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ehren around the world
Where Ehren 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 & Wales1996–2023#4,108in 2023
- France2015–2022#7,156in 2022
- South Australia1980–2007#680in 2007
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ehren by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ehren
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ehren
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.