Aren
Aren was given to 71 boys in 2025, #2,080 among boys’ names; 2,595 Americans have been recorded with it since 1925 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Aren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Aren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Aren?
#2,080 among boys’ names, 2025
Aren rose from #2,722 in 2015 to #2,080 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 41.6 per million.
90 babies in 2024, the peak
Aren peaked in 2024, when 90 babies were given it (84 boys, #1,892 among boys’ names). The 71 births of 2025 are 79% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 71 | #2,080 | |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,651 | 84 | #1,892 |
| 2023 | under 5 | 64 | #2,222 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 70 | #2,116 | |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,509 | 60 | #2,300 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 63 | #2,191 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 62 | #2,231 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 77 | #1,920 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,141 | 50 | #2,532 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 65 | #2,136 |
Every recorded year (61)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 44 | #2,722 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 54 | #2,369 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,310 | 54 | #2,337 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,520 | 42 | #2,813 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,289 | 51 | #2,438 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 50 | #2,470 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 52 | #2,453 | |
| 2008 | 9 | #11,699 | 48 | #2,587 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,912 | 55 | #2,338 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 61 | #2,126 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #16,746 | 54 | #2,205 |
| 2004 | 7 | #12,888 | 62 | #1,951 |
| 2003 | 7 | #12,539 | 45 | #2,353 |
| 2002 | 6 | #13,773 | 53 | #2,042 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,424 | 43 | #2,305 |
| 2000 | 9 | #9,964 | 38 | #2,474 |
| 1999 | 9 | #9,555 | 43 | #2,162 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,049 | 51 | #1,898 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,023 | 53 | #1,790 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,871 | 58 | #1,653 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,279 | 43 | #1,951 |
| 1994 | 16 | #5,727 | 49 | #1,770 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,063 | 53 | #1,657 |
| 1992 | 6 | #11,858 | 37 | #2,082 |
| 1991 | 5 | #13,309 | 23 | #2,827 |
| 1990 | under 5 | 31 | #2,253 | |
| 1989 | 8 | #8,812 | 21 | #2,906 |
| 1988 | 6 | #10,453 | 27 | #2,251 |
| 1987 | under 5 | 12 | #3,735 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 26 | #2,160 | |
| 1985 | 9 | #6,988 | 19 | #2,601 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,202 | 26 | #2,040 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,356 | 22 | #2,273 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,288 | 21 | #2,342 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,189 | 16 | #2,784 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,225 | 25 | #2,115 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,216 | 17 | #2,674 |
| 1978 | 8 | #6,983 | 20 | #2,282 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,379 | 14 | #2,917 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,340 | 24 | #2,003 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,548 | 14 | #2,760 |
| 1974 | 5 | #8,854 | 7 | #4,215 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 6 | #4,536 | |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,597 | 6 | #4,470 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,434 | under 5 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 6 | #4,251 | |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,071 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,592 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 7 | #4,937 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #4,989 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 5 | #4,223 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Aren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,595 Americans recorded as Aren, 13% are girls and 87% boys. In 2025 it went to 71 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Aren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Aren, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 2,595 Americans ever recorded as Aren. The median Aren alive today is 21 years old; half are between 10 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 2,204 people named Aren (342 women and girls, 1,862 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,136 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 14 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 572 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 902 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 835 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Aren born?
The states with the most babies named Aren are California, Florida and New Jersey, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; New Jersey is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 24 | #935 | 1.8× |
| Florida | 9 | #1,262 | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 8 | #772 | 0.4× |
Where Aren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Aren is most over-represented in California: since 1925 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Aren with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 672,705 babies since 1880, Aren is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 5,129 babies (1.4%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Aren
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Aren and names like it
- Compare Aren and AaronBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sAren peaked in 2024.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Aren since 1910.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Aren.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Aren alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with AMost given first.