Wren — #213 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Wren

The Social Security Administration has registered 12,300 babies named Wren between 1888 and 2024, spanning 137 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wren currently holds the #213 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 1,607 babies received it in a single year. Wren is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 2,063 additional births since 1917.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wren performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 6,684 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Wren shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 842 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Wren in 50 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wren 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 12,300 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.