Sparrow
Sparrow is given to both girls and boys: 35 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,156 among girls’ names and #6,399 among boys’, #5,736 among all names counting both); 1,193 Americans have been recorded with it since 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Sparrow and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 5 and 13.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Sparrow by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Sparrow?
#4,156 among girls’ names, 2025
Sparrow fell from #3,086 in 2015 to #4,156 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.8 to 21.8 per million.
99 babies in 2017, the peak
Sparrow peaked in 2017, when 99 babies were given it (88 girls, #2,180 among girls’ names). The 49 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 49% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,156 | 14 | #6,399 |
| 2024 | 46 | #3,452 | 20 | #5,028 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,843 | 16 | #5,881 |
| 2022 | 61 | #2,817 | 15 | #6,107 |
| 2021 | 69 | #2,555 | 17 | #5,525 |
| 2020 | 55 | #2,957 | 15 | #5,937 |
| 2019 | 68 | #2,589 | 14 | #6,360 |
| 2018 | 69 | #2,554 | 6 | #11,939 |
| 2017 | 88 | #2,180 | 11 | #7,472 |
| 2016 | 67 | #2,640 | 9 | #8,708 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #3,086 | 8 | #9,442 |
| 2014 | 65 | #2,709 | 8 | #9,501 |
| 2013 | 67 | #2,654 | 12 | #6,956 |
| 2012 | 50 | #3,309 | 7 | #10,596 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,667 | 11 | #7,426 |
| 2010 | 32 | #4,591 | 5 | #13,971 |
| 2009 | 17 | #7,637 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,370 | under 5 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,171 | under 5 | |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,295 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 6 | #16,177 | under 5 | |
| 2004 | 7 | #14,000 | under 5 | |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,251 | under 5 | |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,815 | under 5 | |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,394 | under 5 | |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,059 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Sparrow a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,193 Americans recorded as Sparrow, 84% are girls and 16% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Sparrow: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Sparrow, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,193 Americans ever recorded as Sparrow. The median Sparrow alive today is 9 years old; half are between 5 and 13.
The 2020 Census counted 819 people named Sparrow (693 women and girls, 126 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 782 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 208 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 964 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Sparrow born?
The states with the most babies named Sparrow are California, Texas and Florida, with 69% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 113 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 33 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 28 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 17 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 14 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 11 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Tennessee | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Virginia | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Sparrow with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Sparrow
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Sparrow and names like it
- Compare Sparrow and HenleyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSparrow peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Sparrow since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Sparrow.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Sparrow alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.