Meaning not yet researched.
Oren: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 174 in 2025. Its best rank was #356 in 1895.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #356 in 1895; #1,184 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Oren in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,184 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1895, at #356.
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Oren: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 174 boys in 2025. Peak: #356 in 1895 · most boys in one year: 174 (2025).
In 2025, 174 US boys were named Oren, making it the 1,184th most common boys’ name of the year, up 202 places from #1,386 in 2024. That is 38 more than the 136 boys named Oren in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #356, reached in 1895. The most boys given the name in a single year was 174, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,366 in 2015 and #863 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Oren in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 13 babies with the name. In all, 9,547 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,233 babies named Oren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,388 US boys were named Oren; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 174. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,817 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Oren ranked highest in Idaho in 2025, at #420 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Orion (23,750 babies since 1880), Ori (1,966 babies since 1880), Orin (6,299 babies since 1880) and Orrin (5,985 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Orene and Oreane 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: Orene (1,015), Oreane (5).
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 Oren 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 37 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Idaho | 6 | #420 | — |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #542 | — |
| Oregon | 5 | #682 | #534 |
| Colorado | 6 | #824 | #871 |
| New York | 16 | #877 | #934 |
| Arizona | 6 | #907 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #915 | #1,488 |
| Indiana | 6 | #925 | — |
| Washington | 6 | #967 | #914 |
| California | 18 | #1,144 | #1,429 |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,221 | — |
| North Carolina | 6 | #1,239 | — |
| Texas | 12 | #1,533 | — |
| Florida | 7 | #1,588 | #1,251 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 174 | #1,184 |
| 2024 | — | — | 136 | #1,386 |
| 2023 | — | — | 148 | #1,299 |
| 2022 | 5 | #17,150 | 140 | #1,343 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,056 | 151 | #1,266 |
| 2020 | — | — | 127 | #1,382 |
| 2019 | — | — | 126 | #1,404 |
| 2018 | — | — | 138 | #1,323 |
| 2017 | — | — | 126 | #1,399 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,756 | 122 | #1,429 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,133 | 128 | #1,366 |
| 2014 | — | — | 99 | #1,594 |
| 2013 | — | — | 113 | #1,465 |
| 2012 | — | — | 129 | #1,325 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,865 | 89 | #1,684 |
| 2010 | — | — | 100 | #1,583 |
| 2009 | — | — | 98 | #1,624 |
| 2008 | — | — | 100 | #1,589 |
| 2007 | — | — | 104 | #1,523 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,303 | 91 | #1,603 |
| 2005 | — | — | 67 | #1,907 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,587 | 54 | #2,183 |
| 2003 | — | — | 57 | #2,025 |
| 2002 | — | — | 58 | #1,935 |
| 2001 | — | — | 53 | #2,022 |
| 2000 | — | — | 48 | #2,121 |
| 1999 | — | — | 50 | #1,958 |
| 1998 | — | — | 56 | #1,808 |
| 1997 | — | — | 47 | #1,952 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,895 |
| 1995 | — | — | 57 | #1,618 |
| 1994 | — | — | 48 | #1,815 |
| 1993 | — | — | 42 | #1,960 |
| 1992 | — | — | 50 | #1,721 |
| 1991 | — | — | 46 | #1,761 |
| 1990 | — | — | 43 | #1,831 |
| 1989 | — | — | 56 | #1,489 |
| 1988 | — | — | 64 | #1,292 |
| 1987 | — | — | 47 | #1,523 |
| 1986 | — | — | 58 | #1,280 |
| 1985 | — | — | 55 | #1,300 |
| 1984 | — | — | 57 | #1,221 |
| 1983 | — | — | 52 | #1,289 |
| 1982 | — | — | 66 | #1,130 |
| 1981 | — | — | 56 | #1,232 |
| 1980 | — | — | 47 | #1,388 |
| 1979 | — | — | 62 | #1,151 |
| 1978 | — | — | 52 | #1,251 |
| 1977 | — | — | 57 | #1,172 |
| 1976 | — | — | 43 | #1,368 |
| 1975 | — | — | 69 | #990 |
| 1974 | — | — | 44 | #1,283 |
| 1973 | — | — | 60 | #1,052 |
| 1972 | — | — | 50 | #1,161 |
| 1971 | — | — | 58 | #1,077 |
| 1970 | — | — | 55 | #1,111 |
| 1969 | — | — | 44 | #1,193 |
| 1968 | — | — | 44 | #1,142 |
| 1967 | — | — | 39 | #1,210 |
| 1966 | — | — | 41 | #1,175 |
| 1965 | — | — | 41 | #1,201 |
| 1964 | — | — | 41 | #1,213 |
| 1963 | — | — | 48 | #1,114 |
| 1962 | — | — | 38 | #1,272 |
| 1961 | — | — | 51 | #1,103 |
| 1960 | — | — | 45 | #1,174 |
| 1959 | — | — | 50 | #1,097 |
| 1958 | — | — | 56 | #1,022 |
| 1957 | — | — | 56 | #1,021 |
| 1956 | — | — | 42 | #1,182 |
| 1955 | — | — | 37 | #1,250 |
| 1954 | — | — | 53 | #1,036 |
| 1953 | — | — | 57 | #953 |
| 1952 | — | — | 56 | #961 |
| 1951 | — | — | 56 | #941 |
| 1950 | — | — | 64 | #863 |
| 1949 | — | — | 51 | #980 |
| 1948 | — | — | 66 | #845 |
| 1947 | — | — | 52 | #994 |
| 1946 | — | — | 64 | #822 |
| 1945 | — | — | 60 | #806 |
| 1944 | — | — | 67 | #767 |
| 1943 | — | — | 78 | #734 |
| 1942 | — | — | 70 | #774 |
| 1941 | — | — | 79 | #693 |
| 1940 | — | — | 84 | #664 |
| 1939 | — | — | 76 | #684 |
| 1938 | — | — | 70 | #734 |
| 1937 | — | — | 65 | #762 |
| 1936 | — | — | 66 | #745 |
| 1935 | — | — | 78 | #685 |
| 1934 | — | — | 74 | #715 |
| 1933 | — | — | 87 | #622 |
| 1932 | — | — | 67 | #778 |
| 1931 | — | — | 85 | #647 |
| 1930 | — | — | 87 | #671 |
| 1929 | — | — | 106 | #585 |
| 1928 | — | — | 116 | #574 |
| 1927 | — | — | 101 | #627 |
| 1926 | — | — | 112 | #595 |
| 1925 | — | — | 130 | #538 |
| 1924 | — | — | 128 | #558 |
| 1923 | — | — | 116 | #587 |
| 1922 | — | — | 136 | #538 |
| 1921 | — | — | 144 | #518 |
| 1920 | — | — | 144 | #505 |
| 1919 | — | — | 132 | #517 |
| 1918 | — | — | 132 | #529 |
| 1917 | — | — | 131 | #502 |
| 1916 | — | — | 117 | #530 |
| 1915 | — | — | 112 | #526 |
| 1914 | 6 | #3,507 | 94 | #505 |
| 1913 | — | — | 79 | #491 |
| 1912 | — | — | 66 | #487 |
| 1911 | — | — | 48 | #418 |
| 1910 | — | — | 32 | #498 |
| 1909 | — | — | 29 | #483 |
| 1908 | — | — | 18 | #623 |
| 1907 | — | — | 20 | #552 |
| 1906 | — | — | 20 | #516 |
| 1905 | — | — | 13 | #691 |
| 1904 | — | — | 25 | #427 |
| 1903 | — | — | 28 | #366 |
| 1902 | — | — | 25 | #411 |
| 1901 | — | — | 23 | #397 |
| 1900 | — | — | 22 | #506 |
| 1899 | — | — | 17 | #470 |
| 1898 | — | — | 20 | #465 |
| 1897 | — | — | 16 | #511 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #624 |
| 1895 | — | — | 28 | #356 |
| 1894 | — | — | 20 | #433 |
| 1893 | — | — | 19 | #427 |
| 1892 | — | — | 16 | #515 |
| 1891 | — | — | 14 | #491 |
| 1890 | — | — | 12 | #593 |
| 1889 | — | — | 19 | #425 |
| 1888 | — | — | 17 | #476 |
| 1887 | — | — | 15 | #449 |
| 1886 | — | — | 23 | #364 |
| 1885 | — | — | 14 | #517 |
| 1884 | — | — | 24 | #368 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #629 |
| 1882 | — | — | 18 | #434 |
| 1881 | — | — | 19 | #393 |
| 1880 | — | — | 13 | #517 |
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).