Ren

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Ren: Recorded every year since 2004, its highest recorded position is #404, reached in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
40times a registrar ranked it
21years from first to last
#404highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2006–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2006	#5061
2007	#5201
2010	#5707
2011	#4764
2012	#3681
2013	#5742
2014	#4684
2015	#2328
2016	#2547
2017	#3583
2018	#1711
2019	#2040
2020	#2042
2021	#1785
2022	#1556
2023	#1959
2024	#1353

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 2004 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Scotland, #500 among boys in England and Wales, #655 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2004–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded2004
First recorded at #3009 among boys in England and Wales in 2004 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1353 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Ren appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 21 years beginning in 2004, and has registered 462 births with the name.

Ren 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.

Ren'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
England and Wales · Boys	#3009 (2004)	#500 (2024)	#500 (2024)	21 of 21	462 (2004–2024)	78 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5061 (2006)	#1353 (2024)	#1353 (2024)	17 of 19	169 (2006–2024)	24 (2024)

Ren by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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 Ren in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	38	6 of 10	6
2010s	164	10 of 10	16
2020sbusiest	260	5 of 10	52

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 52 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Ren 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 3 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Scotland in 2024.

Ren'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	#1353	24	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#500	78	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1959	14	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#587	63	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#746	44	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1785	16	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#704	49	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2042	13	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1051	26	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#2040	13	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1001	28	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1711	17	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#835	37	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#3583	6	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1398	18	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2547	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1187	23	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2328	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2020	11	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1935	11	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#2403	8	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#2117	10	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4764	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#2390	8	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2036	10	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#3227	5	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3687	4	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#5201	3	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2435	7	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1892	9	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1851	9	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#3009	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#404	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2004 and 2024, ranked in 21 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #404, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 78 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 20 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.

Remus · #1595, 14y
Remy · #70, 55y
Rena · #385, 37y
Renad · #2392, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 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.

Aira · #404, 19y
Cree · #404, 17y
Seb · #404, 24y
Danas · #403, 17y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Aira · #404, 19y
Faelan · #404, 8y
Seb · #404, 24y
Aayat · #405, 19y

Ren was ranked #404 in Scotland · Boys in 2024. 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.

Ren 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 Ren without appearing here.

Ren moved ahead of

Jayden Compare
In 2017 they stood at #5742 and #3536 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1711 and #5666.
Kim Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #3583 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1711 and #5666.
Kristy Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4684 and #4684 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1711 and #5666.
Yvonne Compare
In 2017 they stood at #3583 and #2090 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #1711 and #5666.

Moved the opposite way to Ren

Aaron Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 while Aaron went from #41 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 while Adam went from #24 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 while Alan went from #275 to #592.
Alexander Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 while Alexander went from #20 to #36.

Moved the same way as Ren

Albie Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 and Albie from #408 to #19.
Alfred Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 and Alfred from #171 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 and Archie from #45 to #10.
Arthur Compare
Between 2004 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Ren went from #3009 to #500 and Arthur from #151 to #4.

What's not yet available

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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 3 regions, from 2004 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #404 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ren

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Ren across 2 official records

Ren by decade in England and Wales · Boys

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