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OrenIn Hebrew: אורן · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: אֹרֶןRomanization: óren

Oren (Hebrew: אורן) is a unisex name of Hebrew origin. 16,004 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 40 boys and ranked #330. Its peak year was 1975, with 746 babies.

People in Israel
16,004
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
40
rank #330
Peak year
1975
746 babies
USA, 2025
174
rank #1,183

Writing and saying Oren

In Hebrew letters the name is אורן, read right to left. Oren is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "óren" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a male given name, equivalent to English Oren

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Oren by year: Israel and abroad

How many boys out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Oren: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Oren in English-speaking countries

Oren in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States2025174#1,1832025 (174)
United Kingdom202529#1,1022021 (41)
England and Wales202529#1,0352021 (36)
Alberta20252#1,5712008 (4)

Counts for boys. The Hebrew page for Oren has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Oren

How do you write Oren in Hebrew?

Oren is written אורן in Hebrew (with vowel points: אֹרֶן). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "óren".

How many people in Israel are named Oren?

16,004 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name אורן: 1,163 women and 14,841 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Oren a boy's or a girl's name?

Both. In Israel 7% of the people named אורן are women and 93% are men, so we count it as unisex (our threshold: at least 20% of the less common sex).

What does the name Oren mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a male given name, equivalent to English Oren"

Is Oren used outside Israel?

The name Oren appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 174 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,183), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 29 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.