Oren is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
Oren is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1269 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,268 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Oren.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Oren annualy. This means that there have been boys named Oren who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Oren have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Oren even more than any other time: in 1895, it holds its present record at rank #327 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Oren was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Oren has never been ranked higher than #327. In 2022, he rivaled the 1,201 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 144 boys named Oren were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Oren were born, there have been 50 newborns who received this name.
You may not know anyone named Oren, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 34 states are home to men and boys named Oren. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Oren living in one state or another. If your name is Oren and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Missouri, which has the most people named Oren relative to the population, you still have to ask 12,910 men and boys their names before you hear Oren as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter O is pretty rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.8% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an O. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With four letters, the name Oren is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.8% of all boys’ names begin with an O, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are of course single names beginning with an O, which are quite popular
If your name is Oren and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Oren, you can simply say:
Orange
Rocket
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Oren
Oren
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Oren sounds like this:
