girls:
17 births since 1979
#5699 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1968
#3428 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1968
#6546 (15th percentile)
The name Ehren is the #6,546 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,194 recorded births since 1968. This represents the 15.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 15.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,428 (25.2% percentile) for all time with 1,177 births since 1968. For girls, it ranks #5,699 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 17 births since 1979.
Ehren first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1968 (1968 for boys and 1979 for girls).
The name Ehren has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.6% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Ehren reached its peak popularity in 1980, achieving the 8.4% percentile (ranked #624) with 33 births per million. The name was most common in 1980, with 33 births per million (ranked 8.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ehren ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 9.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Ehren reached its peak popularity in 1979, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #784) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1979, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ehren".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Ehren. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 77.3% confident that Ehren is pronounced as EH-ruhn, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AY-ruhn, at 13.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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