How rare is the name Oren?

5,136 people in the United States have the first name Oren, about 1 in 58,807. It ranks #3,837 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census, tied with 1 other.

first name

OREN

#3,837

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
5,136
About
1 in 58,807
This common or more
83.1%
Who bears it

Of the 5,136 people named Oren, 81.2% reported their origin as White, 6.8% as Black and 5.2% as Hispanic or Latino. 97.8% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Oren peaked in 2025, when 174 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
2025
Births that year
174
In 2025*
174
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 9,547 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Oren by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #929. The largest share of babies named Oren, 22.6%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.

1880s#929172
1890s#1,182175
1900s#1,239223
1910s#1,109949
1920s#1,2001,233
1930s#1,442755
1940s#1,748671
1950s#2,344527
1960s#2,815432
1970s#2,788550
1980s#3,176558
1990s#4,329487
2000s#4,124741
2010s#3,1701,188
2020s#2,720886
Before 19013.9%
Greatest Generation 1901–2722.6%
Silent Generation 1928–4514.8%
Baby boom 1946–6410.3%
Generation X 1965–808.4%
Millennials 1981–968.9%
Generation Z 1997–1212.7%
2013 and later18.3%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Oren is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Oren has been most common in Missouri (3.3×), Oklahoma (2.6×), and New York (2.1×), and least common in Virginia (0.37×).

3,796 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Exactly as common as Oren

1 other first name also has 5,136 people.

#3,837 Kyree · 5,136

Either side of Oren

#3,836 Elio · 5,140#3,837 Kyree · 5,136#3,839 Henri · 5,131#3,840 Kalvin · 5,130

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Oren, most common first.

#5,150 Orin · 3,394#8,091 Oran · 1,816#22,077 Orien · 454#22,349 Orren · 446#35,546 Orene · 226#45,015 Oron · 152#47,514 Orena · 137#52,900 Orean · 104

Also a last name

As a last name, Oren ranks #16,795 of 156,621, with 1,654 people. See Oren as a last name

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