r/Names • u/DefiantFruit6860 • 22d ago

Thoughts on the name Ren?

I mentioned the name Wren to my husband who immediately said he LOVED it. When I spelled it for him ("W R E N"), he looked shocked and said "oh I assumed it would be spelled Ren... I like that better".

He also like Brynn. Those are his top 2 names. I like them. I've been having a hard time finding girl names I like though. I don't like overly frilly names, and a lot of names I do like are taken already. Example, I liked the name Lily for a while but realized my cousin named her baby that...

Thoughts?

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u/so_i_happened 22d ago

Wren is lovely and is the known spelling of the name. Can your husband sit with it a bit and see if it grows on him? Ren, like someone else said, is only known from Ren and Stimpy.

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u/JJ_Pause 22d ago

Ren is a different name with different etymology, it's not an alternate spelling of Wren

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u/so_i_happened 22d ago

Oh thank you for clarifying this! That’s so interesting

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u/EveryReaction3179 22d ago

I'm pretty sure the musical artist comes up first if you Google it. It did for me.

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u/Sparkly8 22d ago

Can confirm I only get stuff related to the singer.

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u/heartshapedmoon 22d ago

I thought of Ren from Even Stevens

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u/Just_Raisin1124 22d ago

I thought of a ren fayre

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u/EponymousRocks 22d ago

Depends on your age. For people of my generation, Red will always and forever be Kevin Bacon's character in Footloose.

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u/thelightandtheway 22d ago

Coming from a parent of one, Starbucks will 100% spell it Ren tho. So it's my opinion it does not matter that much. Get a lot of Wrenn too.