Aaren
Last seen for girls in 2010 at #16,992 · #8,243 for boys in 2025, 9 births
Given to boys 76.6% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1998 · 34 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 921since 1971
Aaren over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #8,243 | 9 | |
| 2024 | — | #10,938 | 6 | |
| 2023 | — | #5,927 | 15 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,019 | 19 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,041 | 18 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,153 | 18 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,354 | 23 | |
| 2017 | — | #3,586 | 30 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,524 | 31 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,295 | 23 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,702 | 20 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,964 | 25 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,131 | 24 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,822 | 19 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | — | #3,721 | 28 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,646 | 29 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,893 | 26 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,782 | 26 | |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 | #3,447 | 28 |
| 2004 | — | #5,007 | 16 | |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #2,729 | 36 |
| 2002 | #13,595 | 6 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #2,988 | 30 |
| 2000 | — | #3,536 | 23 | |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #3,591 | 21 |
| 1998 | — | #2,507 | 34 | |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #2,903 | 26 |
| 1996 | #6,392 | 14 | #2,838 | 26 |
| 1995 | #7,514 | 11 | #3,020 | 23 |
| 1994 | #4,376 | 23 | #3,469 | 19 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #4,686 | 21 | #3,604 | 17 |
| 1991 | #6,253 | 14 | #3,325 | 18 |
| 1990 | #4,230 | 23 | #5,823 | 8 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 | #4,527 | 11 |
| 1988 | #6,277 | 12 | — | |
| 1987 | #4,474 | 18 | #3,339 | 14 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #2,942 | 16 |
| 1984 | — | #4,973 | 7 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #5,003 | 7 |
| 1981 | #7,409 | 8 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #4,978 | 14 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #5,751 | 11 | #3,168 | 13 |
| 1978 | — | #5,059 | 6 | |
| 1977 | #6,340 | 9 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 | — | |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 | #4,797 | 6 |
| 1974 | — | #3,558 | 9 | |
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| 1971 | — | #3,658 | 8 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Aaren! It came in at #3,658, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1973, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Aaren is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#2,087 · 1 in 48,664
Best ever in a state: #1,101 in New York, 1996.
Show every state
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| California | #2,087 | 5 | 1 in 48,664 |
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See more about Aaren
- 2,695 spots since 2024 (#10,938 → #8,243)
- 3,202 spots since 2020 (#5,041 → #8,243)
- 3,948 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #8,243)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1998 at #2,507 (34 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 54,871 boys born in 2003 were named Aaren (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 189,786 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,507 in 1998, was only 1 in 56,217 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.1% of all boys named Aaren (259) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1994, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 42 | #3,168 (1979) | #4,048 |
| 1980s | 82 | #2,942 (1985) | #4,603 |
| 1990s | 216 | #2,507 (1998) | #3,395 |
| 2000s | 259 | #2,729 (2003) | #3,725 |
| 2010s | 244 | #3,453 (2010) | #4,198 |
| 2020s | 78 | #5,019 (2022) | #7,043 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Aaren in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 56,217 of them was named Aaren, which outranked 77.8% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,450Vinson35
- #2,450Zaine35
- #2,450Zebulon35
- #2,507Aaren34
- #2,507Aleksandar34
- #2,507Anwar34
- #2,507Curran34
- #2,552Aedan33
- #2,552Amador33
- #2,552Anas33
Tied with 44 names at #2,507; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.