Arren — boys' name
301 babies named Arren in U.S. Social Security records since 1972, with the highest year being 1994. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Arren was born in this single decade.
14 babies were named Arren in 1994 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Arren
The Social Security Administration has registered 301 babies named Arren between 1972 and 2020, spanning 49 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Arren currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2020. The name reached its historical peak in 1994, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Arren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 21 additional births since 1979.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Arren performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 96 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Arren shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Arren in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Arren 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 301 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.
Arren at a glance
Last recorded 2020Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Arren popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2020–1972
- Peak year (1994)
- 14
- Annual births at peak — across 49 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2020.
301 total births across 49 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1994 with 14 births in a single year.
Arren popularity over time — girls
21 total births recorded since 1979 (Arren as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Arren accounts for 7% of total recorded use across both genders.
Arren by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 96 births that decade — 32% of Arren's all-time total
Arren decade highlights
- Peak decade 96 births
- Runner-up 69 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Arren's strongest decade
96 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Arren by state
Where Arren concentrates geographically — total births since 1972
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 5 | 1.7% |
5 of 301 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- California 1.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1972–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.