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Oren

#1,184 in 2025Boys' name

Pine tree

Oren has been given to 9,547 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #1,184 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 174 recorded.

Babies named Oren, 2025

1 in 19,100

Oren over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Oren: meaning, origin, and history

Pine tree

Hebrew

What Oren means

Oren means “pine tree”, associated with אורן.

Origin, language, and formation

Oren is used in English. Its origins include Hebrew.

Oren comes through Hebrew אורן.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 9,502 boys were recorded with the name Oren between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 174 in 2025; its best national rank was #356 in 1895.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,382 in 2020 to #1,184 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,366 in 2015 to #1,184 in 2025.

In the United States, 45 girls were recorded with the name Oren between 1914 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2015; its best national rank was #3,506 in 1914.

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 Oren?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 19,100
174 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,820
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,184
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,207 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Oren 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,207 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Oren. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Orens were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Oren was born before 1961 — so the typical Oren is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
13.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,330
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 13.0% of all recorded uses (1,233).

Is Oren 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
+202
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+198
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+182
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.36×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (174)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#356
1895

Spellings of Oren

Oren is not the most common spelling — Fred is, with 16.0% against Oren's 0.44%.

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 Oren is used

Across 2016–2025, Oren was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 4,762 boys, against 1 in 15,217 across all states with data. It was least common in Missouri (1 in 50,000).

221 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 4,762
  2. 2District of Columbia1 in 7,143
  3. 3New York1 in 7,692
  4. 4Washington1 in 8,333
  5. 5Colorado1 in 9,091
  6. 6Illinois1 in 10,000
  7. 7Massachusetts1 in 10,000
  8. 8California1 in 11,111

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.

Oren around the world

Where Oren 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
    #1,035
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2012–2024
    #727
    in 2024
  • Ireland
    2008–2012
    #718
    in 2012
  • France
    1975–2025
    #1,118
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #1,536
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1960–2013
    #754
    in 2013

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 Oren

People whose public names include Oren, 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.

Oren in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Oren. Linked forms have their own page here.

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Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Oren by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,184
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 198
Best rank ever
#356
1895
Peak year
2025
174 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
9,502
Count in 2025
174

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,506
1914
Peak year
2015
7 that year
First recorded
1914
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
45
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Oren

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

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Names with a curve like Oren

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

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Sibling names for Oren

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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