Meaning not yet researched.
Wren: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,331 in 2025. Its best rank was #184 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #184 in 2022; #231 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Wren in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#231 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #184.
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Wren: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,331 girls in 2025. Peak: #184 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 1,609 (2022).
In 2025, 1,331 US girls were named Wren, making it the 231st most common girls’ name of the year, down 17 places from #214 in 2024. That is 113 fewer than the 1,444 girls named Wren in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #184, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,609. For comparison, it was #707 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 198 US boys were named Wren, making it the 1,090th most common boys’ name of the year, down 60 places from #1,030 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 217 boys named Wren in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #986, reached in 2023. That year also had the most boys given the name: 224. For comparison, it was #2,130 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wren in 84 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1888 with 5 babies. In all, 15,902 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 9,223 babies named Wren.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,706 US girls were named Wren; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 1,609. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,208 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wren ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #32 for girls there. It was in the top 100 in 5 states (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ren (3,634 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Wrenn, Wrynn and Wryn are summarised on this page.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Wrenn (507), Wrynn (122), Wryn (93), Wryan (12).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Wren in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 8 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 18 | #32 | — |
| Idaho | 29 | #57 | — |
| Alaska | 8 | #88 | #228 |
| Utah | 45 | #94 | #396 |
| South Dakota | 11 | #95 | — |
| Wisconsin | 45 | #108 | #844 |
| Minnesota | 45 | #118 | #757 |
| Arkansas | 24 | #124 | #445 |
| Michigan | 65 | #130 | #718 |
| Nebraska | 16 | #148 | — |
| Kansas | 23 | #148 | #458 |
| Maine | 8 | #151 | — |
| West Virginia | 11 | #153 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 68 | #165 | #869 |
| Ohio | 63 | #180 | #618 |
| Virginia | 46 | #181 | #945 |
| Iowa | 18 | #184 | #297 |
| North Carolina | 58 | #188 | #599 |
| South Carolina | 25 | #197 | #875 |
| Oregon | 19 | #198 | #381 |
| Tennessee | 39 | #202 | #742 |
| Washington | 37 | #202 | #455 |
| Louisiana | 22 | #205 | — |
| Indiana | 34 | #210 | #415 |
| Missouri | 29 | #219 | #520 |
| Rhode Island | 5 | #220 | — |
| Alabama | 20 | #245 | #950 |
| Oklahoma | 17 | #246 | — |
| Arizona | 29 | #249 | #1,088 |
| Colorado | 26 | #253 | #441 |
| Georgia | 39 | #264 | #556 |
| Massachusetts | 22 | #272 | #618 |
| Connecticut | 11 | #296 | — |
| Illinois | 36 | #304 | #556 |
| Kentucky | 15 | #306 | — |
| Maryland | 17 | #326 | #885 |
| Mississippi | 9 | #339 | — |
| New York | 45 | #387 | #1,286 |
| Texas | 79 | #429 | #926 |
| New Jersey | 18 | #445 | #1,357 |
| California | 73 | #467 | #1,380 |
| Florida | 37 | #500 | #830 |
| Nevada | 5 | #597 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,331 | #231 | 198 | #1,090 |
| 2024 | 1,444 | #214 | 217 | #1,030 |
| 2023 | 1,549 | #195 | 224 | #986 |
| 2022 | 1,609 | #184 | 221 | #1,011 |
| 2021 | 1,228 | #252 | 190 | #1,102 |
| 2020 | 862 | #360 | 150 | #1,243 |
| 2019 | 745 | #427 | 106 | #1,581 |
| 2018 | 667 | #468 | 112 | #1,528 |
| 2017 | 676 | #464 | 111 | #1,509 |
| 2016 | 595 | #524 | 89 | #1,753 |
| 2015 | 405 | #707 | 66 | #2,130 |
| 2014 | 404 | #699 | 44 | #2,749 |
| 2013 | 340 | #797 | 48 | #2,560 |
| 2012 | 254 | #998 | 29 | #3,708 |
| 2011 | 206 | #1,176 | 33 | #3,361 |
| 2010 | 185 | #1,291 | 32 | #3,449 |
| 2009 | 134 | #1,675 | 18 | #5,315 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,879 | 13 | #6,744 |
| 2007 | 93 | #2,162 | 16 | #5,650 |
| 2006 | 100 | #2,002 | 13 | #6,444 |
| 2005 | 56 | #2,934 | 14 | #5,863 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,925 | 11 | #6,954 |
| 2003 | 39 | #3,653 | 12 | #6,241 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,806 | 9 | #7,619 |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,937 | 9 | #7,507 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,201 | 10 | #6,816 |
| 1999 | 33 | #3,715 | 11 | #6,023 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,631 | 10 | #6,299 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,725 | — | — |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,386 | 8 | #7,115 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,945 | 6 | #8,838 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,563 | 10 | #5,856 |
| 1993 | 20 | #4,996 | 7 | #7,617 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,724 | — | — |
| 1991 | 20 | #5,000 | 11 | #5,089 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,480 | 13 | #4,398 |
| 1989 | 10 | #8,022 | 15 | #3,804 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,891 | 11 | #4,438 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,305 | 10 | #4,567 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,603 | 12 | #3,876 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,451 | 9 | #4,684 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,205 | — | — |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,288 | — | — |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,249 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,785 | — | — |
| 1979 | 15 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,558 | 5 | #6,748 |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,423 | 5 | #6,843 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,284 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,047 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,861 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,351 | — | — |
| 1969 | — | — | 5 | #5,030 |
| 1967 | 7 | #6,033 | — | — |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,759 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,577 | 5 | #4,616 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,570 | — | — |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,299 | — | — |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,175 | — | — |
| 1959 | 11 | #4,026 | — | — |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,886 | 5 | #4,498 |
| 1957 | 9 | #4,531 | — | — |
| 1956 | 8 | #4,831 | 6 | #3,934 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,820 | — | — |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,448 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,220 | — | — |
| 1952 | — | — | 9 | #2,871 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,825 | — | — |
| 1949 | 5 | #6,054 | — | — |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,535 |
| 1942 | — | — | 6 | #3,557 |
| 1932 | — | — | 5 | #4,275 |
| 1930 | — | — | 8 | #3,286 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,534 |
| 1928 | — | — | 7 | #3,691 |
| 1925 | — | — | 8 | #3,403 |
| 1924 | — | — | 9 | #3,254 |
| 1923 | — | — | 5 | #4,892 |
| 1922 | — | — | 10 | #3,012 |
| 1921 | — | — | 5 | #4,975 |
| 1919 | — | — | 7 | #3,735 |
| 1917 | — | — | 5 | #4,595 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,190 | — | — |
| 1888 | 5 | #1,470 | — | — |
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).