Maren
Maren was given to 654 girls in 2025, #472 among girls’ names; 13,064 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 12,500 Americans named Maren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 6 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Maren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Maren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Maren is “a female given name from Danish.”
From Danish Maren, from Latin Marina.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Maren?
#472 among girls’ names, 2025
Maren rose from #1,117 in 2015 to #472 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.13 to 0.41 per 1,000.
707 babies in 2021, the peak
Maren peaked in 2021, when 707 girls were given it, #441 among girls’ names. The 654 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 654 | #472 | 0.41 |
| 2024 | 532 | #569 | 0.33 |
| 2023 | 555 | #545 | 0.35 |
| 2022 | 630 | #502 | 0.38 |
| 2021 | 707 | #441 | 0.43 |
| 2020 | 703 | #438 | 0.43 |
| 2019 | 610 | #515 | 0.36 |
| 2018 | 498 | #606 | 0.29 |
| 2017 | 465 | #635 | 0.27 |
| 2016 | 291 | #942 | 0.16 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 230 | #1,117 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 214 | #1,158 | 0.12 |
| 2013 | 215 | #1,129 | 0.12 |
| 2012 | 230 | #1,082 | 0.13 |
| 2011 | 226 | #1,089 | 0.13 |
| 2010 | 189 | #1,267 | 0.11 |
| 2009 | 234 | #1,090 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 278 | #965 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 276 | #975 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 252 | #1,016 | 0.13 |
| 2005 | 266 | #933 | 0.14 |
| 2004 | 255 | #944 | 0.14 |
| 2003 | 175 | #1,215 | 0.10 |
| 2002 | 161 | #1,240 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 169 | #1,209 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 139 | #1,353 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 131 | #1,352 | 0.07 |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,333 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 130 | #1,329 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 116 | #1,426 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 99 | #1,543 | 0.06 |
| 1994 | 81 | #1,786 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 85 | #1,743 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 71 | #1,954 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 69 | #2,000 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 75 | #1,883 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 70 | #1,885 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 82 | #1,593 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 102 | #1,343 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 92 | #1,398 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 98 | #1,343 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 99 | #1,277 | 0.06 |
| 1983 | 112 | #1,175 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 149 | #993 | 0.09 |
| 1981 | 136 | #1,053 | 0.08 |
| 1980 | 159 | #943 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 226 | #733 | 0.14 |
| 1978 | 81 | #1,429 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 62 | #1,689 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 57 | #1,710 | 0.04 |
| 1975 | 68 | #1,507 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 50 | #1,791 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,081 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,959 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,842 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,871 | 0.03 |
| 1969 | 49 | #1,745 | 0.03 |
| 1968 | 40 | #1,897 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,969 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 35 | #1,970 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 32 | #2,094 | 0.02 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,337 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,906 | 0.02 |
| 1961 | 31 | #2,132 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 36 | #1,910 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 29 | #2,134 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,546 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 40 | #1,718 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,987 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 46 | #1,504 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,896 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,272 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 34 | #1,701 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,544 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 44 | #1,387 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,945 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,802 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 24 | #1,898 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 26 | #1,638 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,842 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 34 | #1,437 | 0.02 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,742 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,065 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,724 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,520 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,591 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,388 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 12 | #2,515 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 9 | #3,030 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,969 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,717 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,360 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,058 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,839 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,893 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,854 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,091 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,444 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Maren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Maren has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 103 years of records.
Girls and boys named Maren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Maren, and how old are they?
12,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 13,064 Americans ever recorded as Maren. The median Maren alive today is 13 years old; half are between 6 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 10,315 people named Maren (10,228 women and girls, 87 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 9,075 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 99 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 460 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,010 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 6,270 |
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 Maren born?
The states with the most babies named Maren are Ohio, Texas and Indiana, with 20% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 53 | #218 | 1.1× |
| Texas | 37 | #813 | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 34 | #208 | 1.1× |
| California | 32 | #901 | 0.6× |
| New York | 28 | #603 | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 28 | #324 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 27 | #395 | 0.8× |
| North Carolina | 27 | #418 | 0.5× |
| Washington | 21 | #350 | 1.3× |
| Wisconsin | 21 | #263 | 1.3× |
Where Maren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Maren is most over-represented in Utah: since 1916 it was given 3.7 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 girls’ 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 Maren 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 575,458 babies since 1880, Maren is the fourth most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 654 of their 1,275 babies (51%), the 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 Maren
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.
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