Ahren
#7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 32 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 966since 1970
Ahren over time
Rank among boys' names. Ahren has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,679 | 10 |
| 2024 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #6,897 | 12 |
| 2022 | #7,262 | 11 |
| 2021 | #7,587 | 10 |
| 2020 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #5,340 | 17 |
| 2018 | #5,106 | 18 |
| 2017 | #6,060 | 14 |
| 2016 | #4,327 | 23 |
| 2015 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #5,485 | 16 |
| 2013 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,035 | 18 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #4,366 | 22 |
| 2009 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #4,011 | 25 |
| 2006 | #3,153 | 34 |
| 2005 | #2,701 | 40 |
| 2004 | #2,887 | 35 |
| 2003 | #4,426 | 18 |
| 2002 | #3,349 | 26 |
| 2001 | #3,512 | 24 |
| 2000 | #4,066 | 19 |
| 1999 | #5,035 | 13 |
| 1998 | #6,843 | 8 |
| 1997 | #5,288 | 11 |
| 1996 | #4,878 | 12 |
| 1995 | #3,854 | 16 |
| 1994 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #4,227 | 14 |
| 1992 | #4,564 | 12 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #3,467 | 17 |
| 1989 | #3,325 | 17 |
| 1988 | #5,200 | 8 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
| 1986 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #3,599 | 12 |
| 1984 | #2,956 | 15 |
| 1983 | #2,676 | 17 |
| 1982 | #2,518 | 19 |
| 1981 | #1,996 | 27 |
| 1980 | #2,058 | 26 |
| 1979 | #1,833 | 30 |
| 1978 | #1,688 | 32 |
| 1977 | #1,743 | 30 |
| 1976 | #2,946 | 13 |
| 1975 | #3,659 | 9 |
| 1974 | #2,277 | 18 |
| 1973 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #4,441 | 6 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #4,724 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Ahren! It came in at #4,724, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1970–1972, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Ahren is popular in 1981
No state had 5 or more boys named Ahren in 1981, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Ahren
- 633 spots since 2024 (#8,312 → #7,679)
- 1,699 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #7,679)
- 2,789 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #7,679)
- Debuted 1970
- Peaked 1978 at #1,688 (32 births)
- Births halved by 1984, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 49,933 boys born in 2005 were named Ahren (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,688 in 1978, was only 1 in 51,307 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.0% of all boys named Ahren (270) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 159 | #1,688 (1978) | #3,072 |
| 1980s | 167 | #1,996 (1981) | #3,129 |
| 1990s | 127 | #3,467 (1990) | #4,745 |
| 2000s | 270 | #2,701 (2005) | #3,631 |
| 2010s | 177 | #4,327 (2016) | #5,242 |
| 2020s | 66 | #5,980 (2020) | #7,286 |
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.
Ahren in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 66,340 of them was named Ahren, which outranked 72.6% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,942Wm28
- #1,942Yousef28
- #1,942Zach28
- #1,996Ahren27
- #1,996Anastacio27
- #1,996Broc27
- #1,996Corbett27
- #2,038Alford26
- #2,038Ameer26
- #2,038Antwoine26
Tied with 41 names at #1,996; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.