Aren is a name with several sources: it is an Armenian name usually explained as "strong" or "bold", a Scandinavian spelling related to Arne, "eagle", and in the United States often simply a streamlined form of Aaron, "high mountain". Its brevity fits the current fashion for short, vowel-led boys' names like Arlo and Oren. Aren has held between numbers 1890 and 2730 for a decade, peaked at number 1892 in 2024 and ranks number 2080 in 2025.