Aren
Last seen for girls in 2024 at #13,477 · #2,077 for boys in 2025, 71 births
Given to boys 86.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 58 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,247since 1925
Aren over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #2,077 | 71 | |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 | #1,891 | 84 |
| 2023 | — | #2,221 | 64 | |
| 2022 | — | #2,117 | 70 | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 | #2,300 | 60 |
| 2020 | — | #2,190 | 63 | |
| 2019 | — | #2,228 | 62 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,920 | 77 | |
| 2017 | #15,902 | 5 | #2,532 | 50 |
| 2016 | — | #2,134 | 65 | |
| 2015 | — | #2,722 | 44 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,370 | 54 | |
| 2013 | #13,150 | 7 | #2,336 | 54 |
| 2012 | #10,429 | 10 | #2,811 | 42 |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #2,437 | 51 |
| 2010 | — | #2,467 | 50 | |
| 2009 | — | #2,451 | 52 | |
| 2008 | #11,599 | 9 | #2,583 | 48 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | #2,337 | 55 |
| 2006 | — | #2,126 | 61 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #2,206 | 54 |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | #1,953 | 62 |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | #2,349 | 45 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #2,046 | 53 |
| 2001 | #9,351 | 10 | #2,306 | 43 |
| 2000 | #9,874 | 9 | #2,476 | 38 |
| 1999 | #9,479 | 9 | #2,162 | 43 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #1,899 | 51 |
| 1997 | #5,010 | 20 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #8,812 | 9 | #1,655 | 58 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #1,955 | 43 |
| 1994 | #5,713 | 16 | #1,773 | 49 |
| 1993 | #7,038 | 12 | #1,662 | 53 |
| 1992 | #11,738 | 6 | #2,085 | 37 |
| 1991 | #13,147 | 5 | #2,828 | 23 |
| 1990 | — | #2,255 | 31 | |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #2,902 | 21 |
| 1988 | #10,386 | 6 | #2,255 | 27 |
| 1987 | — | #3,731 | 12 | |
| 1986 | — | #2,161 | 26 | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 | #2,036 | 26 |
| 1983 | #7,312 | 8 | #2,272 | 22 |
| 1982 | #8,224 | 7 | #2,341 | 21 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #2,110 | 25 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 | #2,669 | 17 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 | #2,279 | 20 |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | #2,910 | 14 |
| 1976 | #7,296 | 7 | #1,999 | 24 |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | #2,751 | 14 |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #4,190 | 7 |
| 1973 | — | #4,505 | 6 | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #7,388 | 6 | — | |
| 1970 | — | #4,230 | 6 | |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
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| 1959 | #5,566 | 6 | — | |
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| 1957 | #4,918 | 7 | — | |
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| 1925 | — | #4,197 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aren! It came in at #4,197, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1925–1969, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Aren
- 186 spots since 2024 (#1,891 → #2,077)
- 113 spots since 2020 (#2,190 → #2,077)
- 645 spots since 2015 (#2,722 → #2,077)
- Debuted 1925
- Peaked 1996 at #1,655 (58 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,511 boys born in 2024 were named Aren (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 24,057 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,655 in 1996, was only 1 in 32,660 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 24.4% of all boys named Aren (549) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1972, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,197 (1925) | #4,197 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 0 | — | — |
| 1950s | 0 | — | — |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 114 | #1,999 (1976) | #3,330 |
| 1980s | 215 | #2,036 (1984) | #2,519 |
| 1990s | 441 | #1,655 (1996) | #2,006 |
| 2000s | 511 | #1,953 (2004) | #2,283 |
| 2010s | 549 | #1,920 (2018) | #2,396 |
| 2020s | 412 | #1,891 (2024) | #2,133 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aren in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 296,809 of them was named Aren, which outranked 25.2% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #9,244Zinnia7
- #9,244Zuleyma7
- #9,244Zykia7
- #10,386Aren6
- #10,386Aasia6
- #10,386Abbee6
- #10,386Abeer6
- #11,798Aaliya5
- #11,798Aariel5
- #11,798Abbigayle5
Tied with 1,411 names at #10,386; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 70,899 of them was named Aren, which outranked 73.5% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,197Ward28
- #2,197Winfred28
- #2,197Woody28
- #2,255Aren27
- #2,255Alexandros27
- #2,255Briant27
- #2,255Cassius27
- #2,305Anh26
- #2,305Antoni26
- #2,305Arvin26
Tied with 49 names at #2,255; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.