Wren

What Wren means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Wren yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #703 in 2015, #231 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Wren?

US: Rising: up from #703 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #400 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 1,609 girls got the name (#184 that year). First in the US records in 1888.

How common

• About 1 in 1,208 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 700 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 716 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MT (6.37 per 1,000 girls), AK (4.84 per 1,000 girls), ID (4.05 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Wren is #231 in the US and #137 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 87.1% of US babies named Wren were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Ren85 US · 14 E&W
• Wrenn41 US · 6 E&W
• Rin42 US · 5 E&W
• Renn28 US · 7 E&W
• Ryn24 US
• Rene13 US
• Rein12 US
• Roen10 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Wren

Girls

• Hazel#21From the word “hazel”^*
• Aurora#15Italian, from Latin Aurōra, meaning “dawn, sunrise”^*
• Eloise#49Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #254 in 2015, #49 in 2025. 6 letters, starting with a vowel
• Ember#154Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #366 in 2015, #154 in 2025
• Eleanor#12possibly “other”^*
• Freya#176“mistress, lady”^*

For a brother

• Leo#19“lion”^*
• Lennox#289Editor’s note Used for both: 75% of US babies named Lennox in 2025 were boys
• Henry#5Editor’s note Up from #29 in 2015 to #5 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 140 US boys in the 2025 records
• Adriel#84“flock of God”^*
• Arlo#148Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #15 vs #148 in 2025
• Miles#44Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #107 in 2015, #44 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Wren’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.