Maren

What Maren means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Maren yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #470 vs #5,927 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Maren?

US: Rising: up from #1115 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #4736 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2020, when 703 girls got the name (#437 that year). First in the US records in 1916.

How common

• About 1 in 2,458 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 84,427 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 5,964 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (2.83 per 1,000 girls), ME (2.25 per 1,000 girls), NH (2.11 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Maren is #470 in the US and #5927 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Maren were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Marin93 US
• Maryn85 US
• Marni29 US · 21 E&W
• Maureen32 US · 7 E&W
• Mahreen11 US · 16 E&W
• Mirren14 US · 8 E&W
• Marren17 US
• Meryn12 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Maren

Girls

• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*
• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Annika#995Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 2003, with 1,089 babies; 254 in 2025
• Amara#98“eternal”^*
• Kailani#253“sea + sky”^*
• Kaylani#185Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #1,054 in 2015, #185 in 2025

For a brother

• Soren#464Editor’s note Up from #574 in 2015 to #464 in 2025 in the US
• Finn#206“the Sami”^*
• Anders#984Editor’s note Down from #796 in 2015 to #984 in 2025 in the US
• Harold#991“army + ruler, authority”^*
• Erik#545Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1980, with 4,918 babies; 549 in 2025
• Luka#85Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #85 vs #261 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Scandinavian & Norse where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Maren’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.