Maren Girl
How popular is Maren?
#470 girl name in 2025
654 baby girls were named Maren in the US in 2025, making it the 470th most popular girl name.
Maren popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #470 for girls (▲ 97 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 654 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+184% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,115 in 2015, #437 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2021 (707 girls) |
| Highest rank | #437 in 2020 |
| First recorded | 1916 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.5% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Maren counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Maren family of names ranked #362 for girls in 2025 (#396 the year before), with 881 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Maren | 654 | 74% |
| Marin | 93 | 11% |
| Maryn | 85 | 10% |
| Mayrin | 8 | 1% |
| Mairin | 11 | 1% |
| Marren | 17 | 2% |
| Marine | 6 | 1% |
| Mahryn | 7 | 1% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Maren is most popular
Babies named Maren per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Iowa: 1.9 per 1,000 (109 girls)
- Maine: 1.6 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- Nebraska: 1.4 per 1,000 (52 girls)
- Kansas: 1.4 per 1,000 (80 girls)
- North Dakota: 1.4 per 1,000 (18 girls)
Maren by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 15 | #3,256 |
| 1920s | 45 | #2,778 |
| 1930s | 107 | #1,873 |
| 1940s | 251 | #1,422 |
| 1950s | 335 | #1,374 |
| 1960s | 344 | #1,728 |
| 1970s | 720 | #732 |
| 1980s | 1,099 | #939 |
| 1990s | 989 | #1,325 |
| 2000s | 2,205 | #932 |
| 2010s | 3,168 | #515 |
| 2020s | 3,781 | #437 |
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Questions
- Is Maren a boy or girl name?
- Maren is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Maren were girls.
- How popular is the name Maren?
- 654 baby girls were named Maren in the US in 2025, making it the 470th most popular girl name.
- When was Maren most popular?
- Maren peaked in 2021, when 707 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #437 in 2020.
- How many people are named Maren?
- 13,064 babies have been named Maren in the US since 1880. We estimate about 12,602 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 14.
- Where is Maren most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Maren was most common in Iowa, at 1.9 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.