Meaning not yet researched.
Maren: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 654 in 2025. Its best rank was #438 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #438 in 2020; #472 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Maren in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#472 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #438.
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Maren: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 654 girls in 2025. Peak: #438 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 707 (2021).
In 2025, 654 US girls were named Maren, making it the 472nd most common girls’ name of the year, up 97 places from #569 in 2024. That is 122 more than the 532 girls named Maren in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #438, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 707, in 2021. For comparison, it was #1,117 in 2015 and #1,388 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Maren in 103 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 8 babies. In all, 13,064 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 3,786 babies named Maren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,645 US girls were named Maren; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 707. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,458 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Maren ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #135 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Marion (261,713 babies since 1880), Maureen (144,604 babies since 1880), Marian (143,295 babies since 1880) and Marin (7,106 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mairyn, Mayrene and Maeryn 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: Mairyn (154), Mayrene (108), Maeryn (100), Maerene (22), Mairene (11), Mahryn (7).
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 Maren in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 13 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 8 | #135 | — |
| New Hampshire | 8 | #161 | — |
| Maine | 7 | #164 | — |
| Iowa | 19 | #170 | #501 |
| Kansas | 18 | #189 | — |
| Indiana | 34 | #208 | #605 |
| Ohio | 53 | #218 | #683 |
| Nebraska | 11 | #218 | — |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #263 | #722 |
| Idaho | 8 | #297 | — |
| Michigan | 28 | #324 | — |
| Utah | 14 | #325 | #359 |
| Massachusetts | 18 | #329 | #921 |
| Connecticut | 9 | #341 | #484 |
| Colorado | 18 | #346 | — |
| Washington | 21 | #350 | #901 |
| South Carolina | 14 | #364 | — |
| Missouri | 17 | #366 | — |
| Minnesota | 15 | #367 | #336 |
| Illinois | 27 | #395 | #1,390 |
| North Carolina | 27 | #418 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #434 | — |
| Oregon | 8 | #464 | — |
| Louisiana | 10 | #464 | — |
| New York | 28 | #603 | #1,711 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #604 | — |
| Arkansas | 5 | #629 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #632 | — |
| Virginia | 12 | #641 | #913 |
| Arizona | 10 | #665 | #1,046 |
| Georgia | 16 | #668 | #1,684 |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #676 | #1,192 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #687 | — |
| Alabama | 7 | #688 | — |
| Texas | 37 | #813 | #1,390 |
| California | 32 | #901 | #1,570 |
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,290 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,297 | #2,005 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 654 | #472 | — | — |
| 2024 | 532 | #569 | — | — |
| 2023 | 555 | #545 | — | — |
| 2022 | 630 | #502 | 5 | #13,624 |
| 2021 | 707 | #441 | — | — |
| 2020 | 703 | #438 | — | — |
| 2019 | 610 | #515 | — | — |
| 2018 | 498 | #606 | — | — |
| 2017 | 465 | #635 | — | — |
| 2016 | 291 | #942 | — | — |
| 2015 | 230 | #1,117 | — | — |
| 2014 | 214 | #1,158 | — | — |
| 2013 | 215 | #1,129 | — | — |
| 2012 | 230 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 2011 | 226 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 2009 | 234 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 2008 | 278 | #965 | — | — |
| 2007 | 276 | #975 | — | — |
| 2006 | 252 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 2005 | 266 | #933 | — | — |
| 2004 | 255 | #944 | — | — |
| 2003 | 175 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 2002 | 161 | #1,241 | — | — |
| 2001 | 169 | #1,210 | — | — |
| 2000 | 139 | #1,355 | — | — |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,335 | — | — |
| 1997 | 130 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1996 | 116 | #1,428 | — | — |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1994 | 81 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,887 | — | — |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,890 | — | — |
| 1988 | 82 | #1,594 | — | — |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,398 | — | — |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,344 | — | — |
| 1984 | 99 | #1,277 | — | — |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,175 | — | — |
| 1982 | 149 | #993 | — | — |
| 1981 | 136 | #1,053 | — | — |
| 1980 | 159 | #943 | — | — |
| 1979 | 226 | #733 | — | — |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,429 | — | — |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,689 | — | — |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,507 | — | — |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,791 | — | — |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,081 | — | — |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,959 | — | — |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,842 | — | — |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,969 | — | — |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,970 | — | — |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,094 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,338 | — | — |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,911 | — | — |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,135 | — | — |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,547 | — | — |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,988 | — | — |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,505 | — | — |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,897 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,273 | — | — |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,545 | — | — |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,946 | — | — |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,803 | — | — |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,843 | — | — |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,743 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,521 | — | — |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,917 | — | — |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,398 | — | — |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,593 | — | — |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,389 | — | — |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,516 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,031 | — | — |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,971 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,719 | — | — |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,362 | — | — |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,756 | — | — |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,840 | — | — |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,856 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,093 | — | — |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,446 | — | — |
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).