Girl name#1,139 of girl names
Wren
Pronounced R EH1 N (ARPABET)
- 1 syllable
- Peaked 2022
- 137 years in use
- 4 spellings
How popular is Wren?
Wren is a girls' name, and first appears in 1888. It has been given to 14,250 children — the 1,139th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about five times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2022, when 1,774 children were given it.
Four other spellings are counted in that total — Ren, Renne, Wrenn and one more — because they are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Wren and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Ren
- Renne
- Wrenn
- Renn
Characteristics
- 1 syllable
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- R EH1 N
- Stress pattern:
- 1
- Syllables:
- 1
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Sibling names for Wren
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Wren?
- Wren ranks 1,139th among girls' names in US records, with 14,250 births since 1888. Over the past decade it accounts for 10,850.
- Is Wren a unisex name?
- No. Wren is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Wren most popular?
- 2022, when 1,774 children were given the name. It has been in use for 137 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Wren spelled?
- Ren, Renne, Wrenn, Renn. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.