Given name & surname
Koren
“one who is gleaming”
Koren is used as a given name and a surname. One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is gleaming.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Hebrew interpretation is “one who is gleaming.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Hebrew.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1950. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Koren through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,779
- 260 boys · 1,519 girls
- Most popular year
- 1978
- 91 babies
- 2025
- 6
- #11,423 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +100%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 6 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 11,423 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 22 in 2008. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,717 as a first name in 2020; 1,798 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Koren’s family of names
Koren has a related form in Korina. Koren has a related form in Kora. Koren has a related form in Korin.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Koren
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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