Meaning not yet researched.
Aren: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 71 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,656 in 1996.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,656 in 1996; #2,080 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Aren in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,080 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1996, at #1,656.
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Aren: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 71 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,656 in 1996 · most boys in one year: 84 (2024).
In 2025, 71 US boys were named Aren, making it the 2,080th most common boys’ name of the year, down 188 places from #1,892 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 84 boys named Aren in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,656, reached in 1996. The most boys given the name in a single year was 84, in 2024. For comparison, it was #2,723 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Aren in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,938, reached in 1957. The most girls given the name in a single year was 20, in 1997. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Aren in 61 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1925 with 5 babies. In all, 2,595 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 579 babies named Aren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 666 US boys were named Aren; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 84. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,057 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Aren ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #772 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Aaron (618,857 babies since 1880), Aron (21,590 babies since 1880), Aryan (8,854 babies since 1880) and Arian (8,290 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Aireen are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Aireen (10).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Aren in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 8 | #772 | — |
| California | 24 | #935 | #1,376 |
| Florida | 9 | #1,262 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 71 | #2,080 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,656 | 84 | #1,892 |
| 2023 | — | — | 64 | #2,223 |
| 2022 | — | — | 70 | #2,117 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,514 | 60 | #2,301 |
| 2020 | — | — | 63 | #2,191 |
| 2019 | — | — | 62 | #2,232 |
| 2018 | — | — | 77 | #1,921 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,146 | 50 | #2,533 |
| 2016 | — | — | 65 | #2,136 |
| 2015 | — | — | 44 | #2,723 |
| 2014 | — | — | 54 | #2,371 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,315 | 54 | #2,338 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,525 | 42 | #2,814 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,296 | 51 | #2,439 |
| 2010 | — | — | 50 | #2,471 |
| 2009 | — | — | 52 | #2,454 |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,704 | 48 | #2,588 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,918 | 55 | #2,338 |
| 2006 | — | — | 61 | #2,127 |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,753 | 54 | #2,209 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,894 | 62 | #1,955 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,546 | 45 | #2,357 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,779 | 53 | #2,046 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,431 | 43 | #2,309 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,972 | 38 | #2,479 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,562 | 43 | #2,165 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,055 | 51 | #1,901 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,027 | 53 | #1,793 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,876 | 58 | #1,656 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,284 | 43 | #1,956 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,733 | 49 | #1,775 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,069 | 53 | #1,662 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,865 | 37 | #2,087 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,316 | 23 | #2,833 |
| 1990 | — | — | 31 | #2,258 |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,818 | 21 | #2,912 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,458 | 27 | #2,256 |
| 1987 | — | — | 12 | #3,740 |
| 1986 | — | — | 26 | #2,162 |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,991 | 19 | #2,603 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,206 | 26 | #2,041 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,358 | 22 | #2,274 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,290 | 21 | #2,343 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,191 | 16 | #2,786 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,226 | 25 | #2,115 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,217 | 17 | #2,675 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,985 | 20 | #2,282 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,381 | 14 | #2,918 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,342 | 24 | #2,004 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,550 | 14 | #2,762 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,856 | 7 | #4,217 |
| 1973 | — | — | 6 | #4,538 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,599 | 6 | #4,472 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,436 | — | — |
| 1970 | — | — | 6 | #4,253 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,072 | — | — |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,593 | — | — |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,938 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,225 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).