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Author Maren Moore.
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My name is Maren (pronounced like Karen with an M) and it gives me so much individuality and I wouldn’t change it for anything. I love my name and I’m just finding out it means star in the sea, which makes it even more cool.
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I think this is beautiful ❤️.
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Maren sounds pretty, stately, and mature.
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If I have a daughter, her name will be Maren! Maren Noelle. (I also love the name Nia, check out my profile.)
It's such a gorgeous name! If you are a Maren you are blessed with a gorgeous name. Lucky you!
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It's such a gorgeous name! If you are a Maren you are blessed with a gorgeous name. Lucky you!
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American singer Maren Morris bears this name.
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I have noticed lately that the name "Maren" is pronounced like Karen. My name is Maren and I am named after my great grandmother from Denmark and her mother before her. It is pronounced like Mah-ren. I think it is beautiful pronounced that way--but rarely do doctor's offices ever get it right ;)
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Not my cup of tea, also rhymes with Karen.
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The name Maren comes from the old high german word "Mare" that means nightmare.
In Danish it means "star of the sea", "the living one to the sea" and "the belonging of one to the sea".
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In Danish it means "star of the sea", "the living one to the sea" and "the belonging of one to the sea".
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The name Maren was given to 290 girls born in the US in 2016.
More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Maren are female.
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More than 99.9 percent of people with the first name Maren are female.
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Maren Larae Morris is an American country music singer, songwriter, and record producer. She has released four studio albums. Her 2015 extended play, Maren Morris, charted on two Billboard charts. Her major label debut album, Hero, reached number five on the Billboard 200 chart and number one on the Top Country Albums chart.
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My great aunt came to this country, from Norway, at age 10 along with her mother and father and ten siblings. My grandmother, one of the sibs, was a baby. The aunt's name was Maren, pronounced similarly to Karen. Admission officials at Ellis Island did as what happened to so many people back then, not familiar with the name, made it Marion. She was Marion for the rest of her long life.
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I like it spelled Meryn. Rhymes with Teryn.
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My daughter's name is Maren & I have always pronounced it Ma-REN. She says I should have spelled it Marin, because that is the normal spelling of how it is pronounced. I say "Who wants to be normal?" I love the name!
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Pretty name.
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My cousin named her oldest daughter this and I had never heard of it before. It's a lovely name for a lovely girl.
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I was named after my great, great grandmother from Tonder Denmark. I am Marentina.
Mahr-en is the pronunciation. [noted -ed]
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Mahr-en is the pronunciation. [noted -ed]
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I love the name Maren.. Rhyming with Karen. Beautiful!
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Rhymes with Karen.
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My name, strangely enough, is also Maren. I also have been called many different names over the years, the most common being Marilyn, Maria, Marie or Marian. I correct people by saying that my name is Maren like Karen but with an M. My name was originally my great grandmother's who was Danish and and I love the fact that it is very different from the all too common names out there. I would not want to change it.
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If you're at all familiar with Latin-based languages, the pronunciation is MAH-ren. It is absolutely NOT like Karen or Sharon. It means star of the sea and is a derivative of Mary. In Italian, "mare" is sea; it's pronounced maah-rea.
Maren is a Scandanavian and Scottish variation of Mary, but that doesn't mean we get to bastardize the pronunciation. Sorry for the rant: I'm Italian and my daughter's name is Maren. I live in Texas, and she - at 3 - corrects people when they mispronounce her name.
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Maren is a Scandanavian and Scottish variation of Mary, but that doesn't mean we get to bastardize the pronunciation. Sorry for the rant: I'm Italian and my daughter's name is Maren. I live in Texas, and she - at 3 - corrects people when they mispronounce her name.
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The name Maren was given to 226 baby girls in the US in 2012. I think it would be beautiful pronounced mah-REN, but I'm not sure if that's how you say it.
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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.
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I think the name Maren is dying out here.
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I like it pronounced ma-rehn and I hate it when it's spelled Marin because Marin is a Croatian and Romanian male name.
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I love the name `Maren´. It sounds so cute!
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It is probably said the same way as Sharon or Karen.
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Maren Kirstine Kierkegaard was one of Soren Kierkegaard's sisters.
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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!
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I know a girl with this name, hers is spelled Marin and pronounced Mahr-in.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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p.s. I LOVE my name.
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In Nordic mithology, also in Latin, there were "marens", night creatures, who bothered people when they slept. Today, we have "nightmares", as reminescents.
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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.
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In Norway, it is pronounced as MAH-ren.
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Maren is also a commonly used name in Norway.
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