Ehren
Ehren was last recorded in 2024, when 9 babies were given it; 1,203 Americans have been recorded with it between 1968 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,140 Americans named Ehren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 39 years old and half are between 20 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ehren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ehren?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,506, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
62 babies in 1980, the peak
Ehren peaked in 1980, when 62 boys were given it, #1,157 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 9 | #8,506 | 5.2 |
| 2023 | 6 | #11,210 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 5 | #12,871 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #12,658 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 7 | #9,850 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 5 | #12,689 | 2.8 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,261 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 14 | #6,118 | 7.6 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,331 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 7 | #9,843 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 17 | #5,307 | 8.9 |
| 2013 | 12 | #6,723 | 6.3 |
| 2012 | 16 | #5,541 | 8.4 |
| 2011 | 19 | #4,863 | 10.0 |
| 2010 | 15 | #5,813 | 7.8 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,501 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 47 | #2,640 | 23.0 |
| 2007 | 35 | #3,205 | 16.9 |
| 2006 | 24 | #4,030 | 11.7 |
| 2005 | 23 | #3,966 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,462 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 21 | #4,014 | 10.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #4,968 | 7.7 |
| 2001 | 17 | #4,538 | 8.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,662 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 7 | #8,107 | 3.6 |
| 1998 | 10 | #5,950 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,734 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,243 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,101 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #4,368 | 7.2 |
| 1993 | 14 | #4,293 | 7.1 |
| 1992 | 18 | #3,492 | 9.0 |
| 1991 | 21 | #3,026 | 10.4 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,084 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,422 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 15 | #3,395 | 7.8 |
| 1987 | 22 | #2,490 | 11.8 |
| 1986 | 32 | #1,884 | 17.4 |
| 1985 | 28 | #2,033 | 15.1 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,056 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 32 | #1,762 | 17.9 |
| 1982 | 43 | #1,469 | 23.7 |
| 1981 | 43 | #1,463 | 24.0 |
| 1980 | 62 | #1,157 | 34.8 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,263 | 30.8 |
| 1978 | 32 | #1,701 | 19.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #1,496 | 23.1 |
| 1976 | 42 | #1,382 | 26.8 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,965 | 15.4 |
| 1974 | 29 | #1,670 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 24 | #1,835 | 15.4 |
| 1972 | 27 | #1,695 | 16.7 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,151 | 10.7 |
| 1970 | 18 | #2,150 | 9.7 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,456 | 7.3 |
| 1968 | 7 | #3,453 | 4.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ehren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,203 Americans recorded as Ehren, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Ehren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ehren, and how old are they?
1,140 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,203 Americans ever recorded as Ehren. The median Ehren alive today is 39 years old; half are between 20 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 1,098 people named Ehren (76 women and girls, 1,022 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,127 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 358 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 351 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 324 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 106 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 7,036 babies since 1880, Ehren is the third most given (17% of them). In 2025 none of their 318 babies recorded by SSA was a Ehren (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Ehren
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 Ehren and names like it
- Compare Ehren and ErenBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sEhren peaked in 1980.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ehren since 1910.
- The top names of 1980The year the most babies were named Ehren.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Ehren alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with EMost given first.