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Garen

#5,277 in 2025Boys' name

Short form of Garegin

Garen has been given to 1,220 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #5,277 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2014, with 30 recorded.

Babies named Garen, 2025

1 in 184,000

Garen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Garen: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Garegin

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Garen means

Garen is a short form of Garegin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Garegin.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,208 boys were recorded with the name Garen between 1941 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 30 in 2014; its best national rank was #2,361 in 1944.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #5,095 in 2020 to #5,277 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,811 in 2015 to #5,277 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 girls were recorded with the name Garen between 1947 and 1982. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1982; its best national rank was #5,590 in 1947.

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 Garen?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 94,900
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,277
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Garen 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Garen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Garens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Garen was born before 1996 — so the typical Garen is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,160
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2010s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (245).

Is Garen 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
+2,668
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−182
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,466
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.64×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
60.0%
Peak was 2014 (30)
Years since peak
11
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,361
1944

Spellings of Garen

Garen is not the most common spelling — Gary is, with 26.4% against Garen'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 Garen is used

Across 1910–2025, Garen was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 306,962 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 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. Garen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Garen around the world

Where Garen 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.

  • France
    1992–1992
    #2,886
    in 1992
  • Canada
    2003–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Garen by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,277
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 182
Best rank ever
#2,361
1944
Peak year
2014
30 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,208
Count in 2025
18

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,590
1947
Peak year
1982
7 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
1982
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Garen

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

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Sibling names for Garen

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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