Maren

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Maren: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Maren: Recorded since 1945, it reached #21 in 1995, and it stood at #199 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
92times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#21highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for
16names it appears alongside

What stands out in Maren's record

Held a top-100 place for 35 years running. Names by top-100 run
Moved 158 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move
Appears alongside 16 other names across 5 kinds of recorded relationship. All recorded relationships
Shares a published list with another name across 79 years. Longest shared records

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2002–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2002	#4137
2006	#5061
2008	#5545
2013	#4739
2015	#4736
2017	#5765
2018	#3518
2019	#4686
2020	#5493
2021	#3519
2022	#4645
2023	#2927
2024	#4192

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 79 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2024: #243 among girls in Norway, #4192 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #316 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #21 among girls in Norway, in 1995 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #199 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Maren appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 79 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 6,760 births with the name.

Maren across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Maren's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#316 (1945)	#21 (1995)	#199 (2025)	79 of 81	6,760 (1945–2025)	276 (1996)
England and Wales · Girls	#4137 (2002)	#2927 (2023)	#4192 (2024)	13 of 23	56 (2002–2024)	8 (2023)

Maren by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Maren in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	47	5 of 10	9
1950s	65	9 of 10	7
1960s	71	9 of 10	8
1970s	267	10 of 10	27
1980s	1,172	10 of 10	117
1990sbusiest	2,488	10 of 10	249
2000s	1,807	10 of 10	181
2010s	693	10 of 10	69
2020s	150	6 of 10	25

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 249 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births fell by 54, from 269 to 215.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Maren appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #21 in Norway in 1996.

Maren's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#4192	5	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#2927	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#3519	6	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#4686	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4739	4	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#5545	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#4137	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#199	23	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#243	17	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#162	31	High	Verified
2022	Norway	female	#159	31	High	Verified
2021	Norway	female	#171	26	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#206	22	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#137	39	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#127	44	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#117	51	High	Verified
2016	Norway	female	#90	69	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#105	61	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#103	58	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#80	79	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#77	85	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#73	88	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#53	119	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#57	115	High	Verified
2008	Norway	female	#49	128	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#40	147	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#37	180	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#35	187	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#25	219	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#27	215	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#28	211	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#36	190	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#31	215	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#24	269	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#25	259	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#24	253	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#21	276	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#21	270	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#23	262	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#28	239	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#26	244	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#33	229	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#43	187	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#48	172	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#53	156	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#54	148	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#60	123	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#63	114	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#57	117	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#69	103	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#78	96	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#98	71	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#99	72	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#98	71	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#161	35	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#147	40	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#198	26	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#223	21	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#209	24	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#261	17	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#307	14	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#361	10	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#386	9	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#460	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#432	7	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#465	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#375	8	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#313	11	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#471	5	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#380	7	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#266	13	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#356	8	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#310	10	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#393	6	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#354	7	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#409	5	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#327	8	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#309	9	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#351	7	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#373	5	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#302	8	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#276	10	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#309	8	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#258	12	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#281	10	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#316	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 79 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #21, first reached in 1995.

It held a top-100 place in 36 years, 35 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 276 births, registered in Norway in 1996.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2002, and 57 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Maree · #42, 23y
Marek · #108, 73y
Margaret · #2, 81y
Margareth · #113, 44y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Einar · #21, 81y
Mats · #21, 74y
Herman · #20, 76y
Gustav · #19, 81y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Einar · #21, 81y
Kåre · #21, 75y
Mats · #21, 74y
Nils · #21, 81y

Comparisons involving Maren

Existing comparison pages where Maren and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Maren in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Monica vs Maren
Over 67 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maren rose about as far as Monica fell — from #315 and #281 in 1946 to #542 and #117 in 2017.
Monica · Maren · 67 shared years, 1946–2017 · Mirrored each other
See the 2017 Norway ranking
Hege vs Maren
Over 63 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maren rose about as far as Hege fell — from #304 and #316 in 1945 to #580 and #77 in 2012.
Hege · Maren · 63 shared years, 1945–2012 · Mirrored each other
See the 2012 Norway ranking
Maren vs Vibeke
Over 62 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maren rose about as far as Vibeke fell — from #316 and #196 in 1945 to #49 and #458 in 2008.
Maren · Vibeke · 62 shared years, 1945–2008 · Mirrored each other
See the 2008 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Maren and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Amalie vs Maren
In 1996, Amalie moved ahead of Maren in Norway · Girls — #29 and #21 the year before became #8 and #21.
Amalie · Maren · 45 shared years, 1978–2025 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1996 Norway ranking
Christine vs Maren
In Norway · Girls, Maren moved into the top 50 at #26 in 1992 as Christine fell out of it to #51, having been #31 the year before.
Christine · Maren · 76 shared years, 1945–2025 · One took the other's place near the top
See the 1992 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Maren measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Maren at its highest position.

Maren vs Jeanette
Over 57 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maren rose about as far as Jeanette fell — from #276 and #342 in 1949 to #103 and #522 in 2014.
Maren · Jeanette · 57 shared years, 1949–2014 · Mirrored each other
See the 2014 Norway ranking
Maren vs Trude
Over 57 shared years in Norway · Girls, Maren rose about as far as Trude fell — from #281 and #287 in 1946 to #35 and #570 in 2005.
Maren · Trude · 57 shared years, 1946–2005 · Mirrored each other
See the 2005 Norway ranking
Lisa vs Maren
Lisa and Maren changed places 19 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2025, ending at #174 and #199.
Lisa · Maren · 78 shared years, 1945–2025 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2025 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Maren was ranked #21 in Norway · Girls in 1995. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Maren and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Maren without appearing here.

Maren moved ahead of

Kristin Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Tracey Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #4535 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #2927 and #5687.
Tyler Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4686 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #3519 and #5581.

Moved ahead of Maren

Rory Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #2706.
Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2927 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #4192 and #1743.
Arlo Compare
In 2016 they stood at #4736 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #5765 and #3583.
Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4739 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #2705.

Moved the opposite way to Maren

Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #316 to #162 while Ann went from #82 to #404.
Berit Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #316 to #162 while Berit went from #7 to #494.
Gro Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #316 to #162 while Gro went from #65 to #465.
Janne Compare
Between 1945 and 2023 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #316 to #162 while Janne went from #148 to #469.

Moved the same way as Maren

Victoria Compare
Between 1951 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #373 to #199 and Victoria from #383 to #80.
Alexandra Compare
Between 1952 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #351 to #199 and Alexandra from #400 to #212.
Andrea Compare
Between 1952 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #351 to #199 and Andrea from #401 to #98.
Hennie Compare
Between 1955 and 2025 in Norway · Girls, Maren went from #409 to #199 and Hennie from #376 to #20.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #21 in Norway in 1996. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Maren

Maren at a glance

What stands out in Maren's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Maren across 2 official records

Maren by decade in Norway · Girls

Maren appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Maren

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Maren

Maren and the names beside it

Maren moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Maren

Moved the opposite way to Maren

Moved the same way as Maren

Maren at a glance

What stands out in Maren's record

Maren across 2 official records

Maren by decade in Norway · Girls

Maren appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Maren

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Maren

Maren and the names beside it

Maren moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Maren

Moved the opposite way to Maren

Moved the same way as Maren