Comments for the name Maren

Maren is also a commonly used name in Norway.

In Norway, it is pronounced as MAH-ren.

Maren is a beautiful name for a girl. The one girl I know with this name prounounces it mare-in. I like the spelling Maryn.

In Nordic mithology, also in Latin, there were "marens", night creatures, who bothered people when they slept. Today, we have "nightmares", as reminescents.

How about that? My name cracked the top 1000 in each of the last two years. However, I still have yet to actually meet another Maren.
p.s. I LOVE my name.

My mother is of primarily Norwegian descent. She pronounces it as Mah-hren. She has an umlaut over the a: Mären. As for my opinion, the pronunciation of Mair-in is ugly and incorrect.

That makes me sad. D: This is how you pronounce my name. I know there are other people out there with my name but I've yet to meet a single one! All throughout school I've just been able to write my first name, since there's no other Maren in my schools.

I know a girl with this name, hers is spelled Marin and pronounced Mahr-in.

My husband's great, great grandmother came to Nebraska from Denmark. Years ago, before we even had our daughter, we saw her headstone while visiting an old cemetary during a family reunion, and we thought the name was pretty. Our daughter is now 13, and her name is Maren Kirstine Rasmussen. We pronounce it Mare-in, however we have been told in Denmark is it Mah-ren. We thought it would be interesting to give a child a name with history, however she has been called everything from Maryann to Marian!

Maren Kirstine Kierkegaard was one of Soren Kierkegaard's sisters.

It is probably said the same way as Sharon or Karen.

I love the name `Maren´. It sounds so cute!

I like it pronounced ma-rehn and I hate it when it's spelled Marin because Marin is a Croatian and Romanian male name.

In Denmark it's pronounced Mahr-un (mahr with the same kind of a sound as in car). It's considered quite the oldfashioned unelegant hill billy name and is strongly associated with dimwitted milkmaids. I don't know why, but being Danish I can't seem to get past that image myself. No offence to people with this name.

I think the name Maren is dying out here.