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Sorren

Gender
Boy
Say it
SOR-en
Origin
Latin
US rank, 2025
#3,756 for boys

Sorren is a boys' name of Latin origin, meaning “stern, severe”. In 2025 it ranked 3,756th for boys in the US (29 babies).

What does Sorren mean?

Latin: spelling of Soren; Danish form of Severinus

“stern, severe”

The Danish form of Severinus, borne by the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard.

Meaning borrowed from Soren. More on Wiktionary.

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

Sorren is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 29 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Sorren in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2017, with 4 boys.

2009Busiest: 4 in 20172022
Sorren in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20221#6,413
20212#6,291
20200–
20192#6,181
20183#4,959
20174#4,161
20162#6,340
20151#6,220
20143#4,829
20131#6,198
20120–
20110–
20100–
20091#6,016

How popular is Sorren in the US?

Rank in 2025
#3,756among boys
Babies in 2025
29about 1 in 59,000 boys
Five-year trend
Rising fastup 116% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 29 boys in the US were named Sorren, making it the 3,756th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,497th. It first appears in the records in 2008.

It has been given to more boys each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had the most boys named Sorren of any year since it first appeared, in 2008.

Half of all the boys named Sorren in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 774 boys in the US were given Sorren or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #421, up from #3,756 for this spelling alone.

2008Busiest: 29 in 20252025
Sorren in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202529#3,756
202426#4,069
202312#6,892
20227#9,815
202118#5,105
202010#7,497
201910#7,638
201811#7,132
201711#7,091
201611#7,152
20155#12,080
20146#10,711
20130–
20120–
20117#9,593
20105#12,224
20095#12,486
20085#12,546

Names like Sorren

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Sorren

More Latin names

Every Latin name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Sorren: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/sorren, updated 20 October 2026.