Sparrow — #3533 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Sparrow

The Social Security Administration has registered 968 babies named Sparrow between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Sparrow currently holds the #3533 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 88 babies received it in a single year. Sparrow is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 174 additional births since 2010.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Sparrow performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 592 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Sparrow shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 111 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Sparrow in 12 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Sparrow in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 968 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.