Worldwide, بيرين (Beren 
, Perin 
, Perrin ) is a common gender-neutral first name. The forename بيرين is characteristic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it is quite a rare masculine name, Cameroon, and Turkey, where it is quite a rare primarily female, but very seldom masculine name. Not in comparison with a country's population, this name is the most popular in India, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the United States. More frequently, بيرين is the last name as well as the forename.
بيرين is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Perrin Aybara , the fictional character from The Wheel of Time; Beren Erchamion , the fictional character in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth, The Silmarillion; Beren , the fictional character by J.R.R. Tolkien, The War of the Jewels; Perrin Dandin , character in The Third Book and Perin , the operatic character in the opera Donna Diana by Emil von Reznicek; court jester.