Ren
#2,173 for girls in 2025, 85 births · #1,038 for boys in 2025, 213 births
Given to boys 77.5% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 213 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,818since 1915
Ren 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 | #2,173 | 85 | #1,038 | 213 |
| 2024 | #2,248 | 83 | #1,145 | 183 |
| 2023 | #2,156 | 88 | #1,080 | 199 |
| 2022 | #2,174 | 87 | #1,125 | 188 |
| 2021 | #2,286 | 80 | #1,119 | 182 |
| 2020 | #2,966 | 54 | #1,320 | 136 |
| 2019 | #2,856 | 58 | #1,614 | 102 |
| 2018 | #3,853 | 38 | #1,762 | 87 |
| 2017 | #4,477 | 31 | #1,695 | 93 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 | #1,501 | 113 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 | #2,001 | 72 |
| 2014 | #7,636 | 15 | #2,000 | 71 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #2,044 | 66 |
| 2012 | #7,804 | 15 | #2,292 | 56 |
| 2011 | #5,935 | 22 | #2,748 | 43 |
| 2010 | #9,790 | 11 | #2,287 | 56 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 | #2,663 | 46 |
| 2008 | #9,476 | 12 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #10,129 | 11 | #3,188 | 35 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #4,001 | 24 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 | #4,264 | 20 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #3,732 | 23 |
| 2002 | — | #4,188 | 19 | |
| 2001 | — | #4,121 | 19 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,389 | 17 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,704 | 20 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,849 | 18 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,668 | 13 | |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | — | #5,928 | 9 | |
| 1994 | — | #3,596 | 18 | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | #3,246 | 20 |
| 1992 | #13,317 | 5 | #2,412 | 30 |
| 1991 | — | #2,606 | 26 | |
| 1990 | — | #2,628 | 25 | |
| 1989 | — | #2,106 | 33 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,731 | 40 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,760 | 37 | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #2,429 | 22 |
| 1985 | — | #1,834 | 32 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,364 | 21 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | — | |
| 1982 | — | #3,966 | 10 | |
| 1981 | — | — | ||
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #6,056 | 5 | |
| 1978 | — | — | ||
| 1977 | — | #5,845 | 5 | |
| 1976 | — | — | ||
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| 1974 | — | — | ||
| 1973 | — | #3,445 | 9 | |
| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
| 1971 | — | — | ||
| 1970 | — | #3,282 | 9 | |
| 1969 | — | #4,404 | 5 | |
| 1968 | — | — | ||
| 1967 | — | — | ||
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
| 1965 | — | #3,537 | 6 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,858 | 9 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,364 | 12 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,706 | 10 | |
| 1960 | — | #3,077 | 8 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,200 | 14 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,275 | 7 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,822 | 9 | |
| 1956 | — | #3,216 | 7 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,764 | 9 | |
| 1954 | — | — | ||
| 1953 | — | #3,143 | 7 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,021 | 7 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,123 | 13 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,443 | 10 | |
| 1947 | — | #2,862 | 8 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,173 | 6 | |
| 1945 | — | #2,393 | 9 | |
| 1944 | — | — | ||
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | #3,560 | 5 | |
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| 1937 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1933 | — | #3,004 | 7 | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
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| 1923 | — | #2,614 | 11 | |
| 1922 | — | #3,872 | 6 | |
| 1921 | — | #4,322 | 5 | |
| 1920 | — | — | ||
| 1919 | — | #3,736 | 6 | |
| 1918 | — | — | ||
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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| 1915 | — | #3,825 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ren! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Ren
- 107 spots since 2024 (#1,145 → #1,038)
- 282 spots since 2020 (#1,320 → #1,038)
- 963 spots since 2015 (#2,001 → #1,038)
- Debuted 1915
- Peaked 2025 at #1,038 (213 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 8,019 boys born in 2025 were named Ren (0.01%)
- 39.1% of all boys named Ren (1,101) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1983, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 17 | #3,545 (1917) | #3,702 |
| 1920s | 22 | #2,614 (1923) | #3,603 |
| 1930s | 19 | #3,004 (1933) | #3,257 |
| 1940s | 59 | #2,123 (1949) | #2,755 |
| 1950s | 70 | #2,200 (1959) | #3,099 |
| 1960s | 65 | #2,364 (1962) | #3,195 |
| 1970s | 33 | #3,282 (1970) | #4,723 |
| 1980s | 201 | #1,731 (1988) | #2,714 |
| 1990s | 192 | #2,412 (1992) | #3,725 |
| 2000s | 280 | #2,663 (2009) | #3,633 |
| 2010s | 759 | #1,501 (2016) | #1,994 |
| 2020s | 1,101 | #1,038 (2025) | #1,138 |
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.
Ren in 2021
Top girls' names in 2021
Top boys' names in 2021
More about 2021
girls
1,640,861 girls got a published name in 2021; 1 in 20,511 of them was named Ren, which outranked 87.1% of the 17,676 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,266Shayna81
- #2,266Sullivan81
- #2,266Zari81
- #2,286Ren80
- #2,286Adara80
- #2,286Anastacia80
- #2,286Anjali80
- #2,309Amorah79
- #2,309Anissa79
- #2,309Annmarie79
Tied with 22 names at #2,286; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,749,482 boys got a published name in 2021; 1 in 9,613 of them was named Ren, which outranked 92.1% of the 14,096 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,116Draven183
- #1,116Jermaine183
- #1,116Vaughn183
- #1,119Ren182
- #1,119Jad182
- #1,119Javon182
- #1,119Jenson182
- #1,125Casper181
- #1,125Jrue181
- #1,125Kaine181
Tied with 5 names at #1,119; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.