Ren — #1143 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ren

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,604 babies named Ren between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ren currently holds the #1143 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 199 babies received it in a single year. Ren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 728 additional births since 1983.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ren performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 888 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Ren shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 384 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Ren in 26 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ren 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 2,604 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.