Aren — #1891 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Aren

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,176 babies named Aren between 1925 and 2024, spanning 100 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Aren currently holds the #1891 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 84 babies received it in a single year. Aren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 348 additional births since 1946.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Aren performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 549 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Aren shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 590 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Aren in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Aren in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,176 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.