Wrenn is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Wren, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Wrenn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 41 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,034 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,034 in 2021; #3,706 in 2025. About 87% of babies named Wrenn in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,706 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #3,034.
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Wrenn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 41 girls in 2025. Peak: #3,034 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 55 (2021).
In 2025, 41 US girls were named Wrenn, making it the 3,706th most common girls’ name of the year, up 110 places from #3,816 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 40 girls named Wrenn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #3,034, reached in 2021. That year also had the most girls given the name: 55. For comparison, it was #8,913 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Wrenn, making it the 11,919th most common boys’ name of the year, up 353 places from #12,272 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 6 boys named Wrenn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #8,116, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 10, in 2022. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wrenn in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1987 with 5 babies. In all, 507 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 308 babies named Wrenn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 342 US girls were named Wrenn; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 39,202 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wren (15,902 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Wrenn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,706 | 6 | #11,919 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,816 | 6 | #12,272 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,474 | 8 | #9,706 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,467 | 10 | #8,260 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,034 | 8 | #9,653 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,254 | 9 | #8,694 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,697 | — | — |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,775 | 7 | #10,699 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,794 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,279 | — | — |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,913 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,465 | — | — |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,555 | — | — |
| 2012 | 13 | #9,093 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,759 | — | — |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,865 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,192 | — | — |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,339 | — | — |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,431 | — | — |
| 2006 | 7 | #15,075 | — | — |
| 2004 | 6 | #16,019 | — | — |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #8,116 |
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).