Ren

What Ren means

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

Editor’s note Used for both: 71% of US babies named Ren in 2025 were boys Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Ren?

US: Rising: up from #2001 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2020 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 213 boys got the name (#1038 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 8,019 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 2,924 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 3,274 baby boys 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 NV (0.44 per 1,000 boys), WA (0.34 per 1,000 boys), UT (0.31 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Ren is #1038 in the US and #427 in England & Wales (2025).

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

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 71.5% of US babies named Ren were boys.

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

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Wren198 US · 88 E&W
• Rene197 US · 14 E&W
• Roan149 US · 34 E&W
• Rune90 US · 26 E&W
• Rain93 US · 16 E&W
• Roen67 US · 16 E&W
• Renn17 US · 19 E&W
• Ron24 US · 10 E&W

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 Ren

Boys

• Nico#174Diminutive of Nicholas, meaning “victory + people”^*
• Felix#175“happy, lucky”^*
• Otto#277“wealth, riches”^*
• Thiago#50Portuguese, meaning “natal, relating to birth”^*
• Theo#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #405 in 2015, #82 in 2025
• Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025

For a sister

• Mabel#201“lovable”^*
• Aurelia#290“golden”^*
• Iris#61“rainbow”^*
• Esther#119“star”^*
• Ariella#174Form of Ariel, meaning “lion of God”^*
• Ophelia#264possibly “help, aid, succour”^*

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