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Sparrow: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,180 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,180 in 2017; #4,157 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Sparrow in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,157 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #2,180.
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Sparrow: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 girls in 2025. Peak: #2,180 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 88 (2017).
In 2025, 35 US girls were named Sparrow, making it the 4,157th most common girls’ name of the year, down 705 places from #3,452 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 46 girls named Sparrow in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,180, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 88. For comparison, it was #3,086 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 14 US boys were named Sparrow, making it the 6,403rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,371 places from #5,032 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 20 boys named Sparrow in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,032, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #9,448 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Sparrow in 26 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1977 with 5 babies. In all, 1,193 US babies have been given the name, 84% of them girls and 16% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 683 babies named Sparrow.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 618 US girls were named Sparrow; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 88. In 2025 that was about 1 in 45,922 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,157 | 14 | #6,403 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,452 | 20 | #5,032 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,843 | 16 | #5,886 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,817 | 15 | #6,112 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,555 | 17 | #5,530 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,957 | 15 | #5,941 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,589 | 14 | #6,365 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,554 | 6 | #11,945 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,180 | 11 | #7,476 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,640 | 9 | #8,713 |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,086 | 8 | #9,448 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,711 | 8 | #9,507 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,655 | 12 | #6,961 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,310 | 7 | #10,602 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,668 | 11 | #7,433 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,592 | 5 | #13,978 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,640 | — | — |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,374 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,177 | — | — |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,300 | — | — |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,184 | — | — |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,006 | — | — |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,258 | — | — |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,821 | — | — |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,399 | — | — |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,061 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).