Warren
Warren was given to 1,471 boys in 2025, #240 among boys’ names; 185,502 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 85,300 Americans named Warren and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 31 and 71.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Warren by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Warren mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Warren is “a male given name from the Germanic languages.”
From the Anglo-Norman surname (de) Warenne, a reference to a place called Varenne, a hamlet near Arques-la-Bataille, along the river Varenne in Normandy, from Medieval Latin Warinna, a hydronym of Celtic/Gaulish origin, from *var-, *ver- (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the Latin river Avara. Phonetic Germanic influence is shown by the [v] > [w].
/ˈwɔɹən/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Warren?
#240 among boys’ names, 2025
Warren rose from #400 in 2015 to #240 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.40 to 0.86 per 1,000.
7,826 babies in 1921, the peak
Warren peaked in 1921, when 7,826 babies were given it (7,798 boys, #24 among boys’ names). The 1,493 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 19% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 1,471 | #240 | 0.86 |
| 2024 | 1,329 | #263 | 0.77 |
| 2023 | 1,082 | #306 | 0.63 |
| 2022 | 1,014 | #334 | 0.58 |
| 2021 | 940 | #346 | 0.54 |
| 2020 | 936 | #343 | 0.54 |
| 2019 | 956 | #349 | 0.53 |
| 2018 | 995 | #338 | 0.55 |
| 2017 | 913 | #360 | 0.49 |
| 2016 | 828 | #387 | 0.44 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 775 | #400 | 0.40 |
| 2014 | 700 | #433 | 0.36 |
| 2013 | 585 | #477 | 0.31 |
| 2012 | 577 | #473 | 0.30 |
| 2011 | 524 | #498 | 0.28 |
| 2010 | 538 | #484 | 0.28 |
| 2009 | 595 | #459 | 0.30 |
| 2008 | 530 | #514 | 0.26 |
| 2007 | 514 | #513 | 0.25 |
| 2006 | 521 | #498 | 0.25 |
| 2005 | 435 | #551 | 0.22 |
| 2004 | 451 | #529 | 0.23 |
| 2003 | 501 | #493 | 0.25 |
| 2002 | 427 | #528 | 0.22 |
| 2001 | 440 | #515 | 0.23 |
| 2000 | 545 | #438 | 0.28 |
| 1999 | 486 | #470 | 0.25 |
| 1998 | 546 | #424 | 0.29 |
| 1997 | 567 | #407 | 0.30 |
| 1996 | 524 | #430 | 0.28 |
| 1995 | 570 | #403 | 0.30 |
| 1994 | 604 | #386 | 0.31 |
| 1993 | 625 | #376 | 0.32 |
| 1992 | 661 | #359 | 0.33 |
| 1991 | 648 | #365 | 0.32 |
| 1990 | 728 | #340 | 0.35 |
| 1989 | 786 | #304 | 0.39 |
| 1988 | 650 | #331 | 0.34 |
| 1987 | 714 | #301 | 0.38 |
| 1986 | 756 | #280 | 0.41 |
| 1985 | 751 | #278 | 0.41 |
| 1984 | 799 | #261 | 0.44 |
| 1983 | 820 | #254 | 0.46 |
| 1982 | 803 | #267 | 0.44 |
| 1981 | 819 | #265 | 0.46 |
| 1980 | 812 | #268 | 0.46 |
| 1979 | 815 | #260 | 0.47 |
| 1978 | 788 | #258 | 0.48 |
| 1977 | 803 | #253 | 0.49 |
| 1976 | 828 | #242 | 0.53 |
| 1975 | 890 | #232 | 0.57 |
| 1974 | 936 | #225 | 0.60 |
| 1973 | 1,031 | #211 | 0.66 |
| 1972 | 1,095 | #208 | 0.68 |
| 1971 | 1,385 | #184 | 0.78 |
| 1970 | 1,507 | #182 | 0.81 |
| 1969 | 1,521 | #183 | 0.85 |
| 1968 | 1,548 | #173 | 0.89 |
| 1967 | 1,554 | #172 | 0.89 |
| 1966 | 1,625 | #167 | 0.91 |
| 1965 | 1,826 | #162 | 1.0 |
| 1964 | 2,037 | #160 | 1.0 |
| 1963 | 2,185 | #152 | 1.1 |
| 1962 | 2,166 | #151 | 1.0 |
| 1961 | 2,082 | #157 | 1.0 |
| 1960 | 2,017 | #165 | 0.95 |
| 1959 | 2,178 | #157 | 1.0 |
| 1958 | 2,299 | #149 | 1.1 |
| 1957 | 2,333 | #147 | 1.1 |
| 1956 | 2,334 | #141 | 1.1 |
| 1955 | 2,491 | #130 | 1.2 |
| 1954 | 2,621 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1953 | 2,637 | #124 | 1.3 |
| 1952 | 2,638 | #117 | 1.4 |
| 1951 | 2,604 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1950 | 2,467 | #118 | 1.4 |
| 1949 | 2,527 | #115 | 1.4 |
| 1948 | 2,657 | #109 | 1.5 |
| 1947 | 2,728 | #108 | 1.5 |
| 1946 | 2,537 | #105 | 1.6 |
| 1945 | 2,183 | #106 | 1.6 |
| 1944 | 2,349 | #100 | 1.7 |
| 1943 | 2,480 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 1942 | 2,423 | #97 | 1.8 |
| 1941 | 2,043 | #105 | 1.7 |
| 1940 | 1,813 | #110 | 1.6 |
| 1939 | 1,892 | #104 | 1.7 |
| 1938 | 1,997 | #102 | 1.8 |
| 1937 | 1,822 | #106 | 1.7 |
| 1936 | 1,976 | #95 | 1.9 |
| 1935 | 1,994 | #97 | 1.9 |
| 1934 | 2,024 | #96 | 2.0 |
| 1933 | 1,809 | #99 | 1.8 |
| 1932 | 1,792 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 1931 | 1,834 | #100 | 1.8 |
| 1930 | 2,011 | #96 | 1.8 |
| 1929 | 2,037 | #92 | 1.9 |
| 1928 | 2,361 | #85 | 2.1 |
| 1927 | 2,555 | #79 | 2.3 |
| 1926 | 2,701 | #71 | 2.4 |
| 1925 | 2,945 | #66 | 2.6 |
| 1924 | 3,582 | #58 | 3.2 |
| 1923 | 4,820 | #43 | 4.4 |
| 1922 | 4,484 | #45 | 4.1 |
| 1921 | 7,798 | #24 | 7.1 |
| 1920 | 5,492 | #39 | 5.2 |
| 1919 | 2,180 | #83 | 2.2 |
| 1918 | 1,990 | #90 | 2.0 |
| 1917 | 1,743 | #93 | 1.9 |
| 1916 | 1,549 | #102 | 1.7 |
| 1915 | 1,420 | #105 | 1.7 |
| 1914 | 1,033 | #108 | 1.6 |
| 1913 | 798 | #109 | 1.6 |
| 1912 | 697 | #107 | 1.6 |
| 1911 | 338 | #113 | 1.5 |
| 1910 | 264 | #122 | 1.4 |
| 1909 | 231 | #120 | 1.4 |
| 1908 | 194 | #132 | 1.3 |
| 1907 | 182 | #132 | 1.2 |
| 1906 | 144 | #144 | 1.1 |
| 1905 | 172 | #126 | 1.3 |
| 1904 | 163 | #131 | 1.3 |
| 1903 | 173 | #114 | 1.5 |
| 1902 | 149 | #129 | 1.2 |
| 1901 | 149 | #113 | 1.4 |
| 1900 | 191 | #122 | 1.3 |
| 1899 | 173 | #104 | 1.6 |
| 1898 | 151 | #123 | 1.2 |
| 1897 | 137 | #121 | 1.2 |
| 1896 | 125 | #134 | 1.0 |
| 1895 | 160 | #110 | 1.4 |
| 1894 | 141 | #115 | 1.2 |
| 1893 | 140 | #116 | 1.2 |
| 1892 | 157 | #113 | 1.3 |
| 1891 | 139 | #107 | 1.4 |
| 1890 | 157 | #106 | 1.4 |
| 1889 | 167 | #99 | 1.5 |
| 1888 | 148 | #112 | 1.2 |
| 1887 | 163 | #94 | 1.6 |
| 1886 | 144 | #108 | 1.3 |
| 1885 | 151 | #96 | 1.4 |
| 1884 | 164 | #94 | 1.4 |
| 1883 | 146 | #91 | 1.4 |
| 1882 | 183 | #86 | 1.6 |
| 1881 | 156 | #84 | 1.5 |
| 1880 | 158 | #89 | 1.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Warren a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Warren has been given almost only to boys: 984 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Warren: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Warren, and how old are they?
85,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 185,502 Americans ever recorded as Warren. The median Warren alive today is 58 years old; half are between 31 and 71.
The 2020 Census counted 87,424 people named Warren (238 women and girls, 87,186 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 90,349 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7,430 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 29,800 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 16,700 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 10,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 8,070 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 12,500 |
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 Warren born?
The states with the most babies named Warren are New York, Pennsylvania and California, with 22% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 15,913 | #405 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 11,466 | #187 | 0.9× |
| California | 10,834 | #382 | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 9,270 | #242 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 7,536 | #296 | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 7,138 | #177 | 0.8× |
| Louisiana | 6,387 | #206 | 1.8× |
| Massachusetts | 6,340 | #345 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 5,831 | #267 | 1.4× |
| Michigan | 5,828 | #198 | 0.8× |
Where Warren is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Warren is most over-represented in Louisiana: since 1910 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Warren 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 Warren
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 Warren and names like it
- Compare Warren and EugeneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWarren peaked in 1921.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Warren since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Warren: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1921The year the most babies were named Warren.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Warren alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.