Oren is a distinctive choice, ranked #1132 in 2024. Your child is likely to be the only Oren in their class.
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UK Rank 2024
#1132
About the Name Oren
Oren is holding steady in the rankings at #1132. It reached its peak of #854 in 2021 and has maintained consistent levels since — the hallmark of a name with lasting rather than trend-driven appeal. The name has been a consistent presence in UK records since 1996.
Oren is distinctive enough that your child will likely be the only one in both their class and their school — standing out on every register.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Oren
Unlikely. With around 25 UK babies named Oren per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Oren in his class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Oren has held a stable position around #1132 for several years. It reached its recorded peak of #854 in 2021 and has maintained consistent levels since — suggesting lasting rather than trend-driven appeal.
Oren is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Oren include: Oren Kessler — Oren Kessler is an American international politics analyst, author, and journalist.; Oren Ambarchi — Oren Ambarchi is an Australian musician.; Oren Ngullie — Oren Ngullie is an Indian cricketer..
Oren does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Orens in the wild.
25
UK babies named Oren (2024)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 21 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Oren
Likely around 1 other Oren in the class
UK Popularity (1996–2024)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Oren
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Shay-Oren Smadja is an Israeli judo coach and former competitive judoka. Smadja won an Olympic bronze medal in judo at the 1992 Summer Olympics, making him the first Israeli male to win an Olympic medal, and the second Israeli overall after Yael Arad who won silver in judo the day before.
Oren Yiftachel is an Israeli professor of political and legal geography, urban studies and urban planning at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba. He holds the Lynn and Lloyd Hurst Family Chair in Urban Studies.
Mordechai Oren was a leader of Mapam and the Kibbutz Artzi Hashomer Hatzair. He was implicated in a scandal which created an uproar in the state of Israel during the early fifties when he was tried in a show trial in Eastern Europe and was dubbed the "prisoner of Prague".
Tom Oren is an Israeli jazz pianist and winner of the 2018 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition. Oren was born in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Oren Etzioni is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the University of Washington, and founding CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2). Etzioni is a co-founder of Vercept, an AI startup, and founder and CEO of TrueMedia.org, a non-profit dedicated to fighting political deepfakes, which launched in April 2024.