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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Wren” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wren” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Wren” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Wren” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Wren” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Wren” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Wren” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wren” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1888 5 0.000016696 5 100%
1914 5 0.00000353 5 100%
1917 5 0.000002492 5 -100%
1919 7 0.000003317 7 -100%
1921 5 0.000002142 5 -100%
1922 10 0.000004368 10 -100%
1923 5 0.000002172 5 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1925 8 0.000003429 8 -100%
1928 7 0.000003096 7 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1930 8 0.000003598 8 -100%
1932 5 0.000002368 5 -100%
1942 6 0.000002196 6 -100%
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1949 5 0.000001435 5 100%
1951 7 0.0000019 7 100%
1952 9 0.00000237 9 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 100%
1954 7 0.000001758 7 -100%
1955 6 0.000001494 6 100%
1956 14 0.000003396 8 6 14%
1957 9 0.000002142 9 100%
1958 13 0.000003145 8 5 23%
1959 11 0.000002646 11 100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 100%
1962 6 0.000001487 6 100%
1963 11 0.000002779 6 5 9%
1964 6 0.000001543 6 100%
1967 7 0.000002062 7 100%
1969 5 0.000001439 5 -100%
1970 8 0.000002218 8 100%
1973 12 0.000003978 12 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1976 8 0.000002637 8 100%
1977 21 0.000006611 16 5 52%
1978 17 0.000005356 12 5 41%
1979 15 0.000004509 15 100%
1980 10 0.000002903 10 100%
1981 14 0.000004047 14 100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 100%
1983 11 0.000003176 11 100%
1985 20 0.000005604 11 9 10%
1986 23 0.000006466 11 12 -4%
1987 25 0.000006934 15 10 20%
1988 25 0.000006766 14 11 12%
1989 25 0.000006503 10 15 -20%
1990 23 0.000005819 10 13 -13%
1991 31 0.000007958 20 11 29%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 100%
1993 27 0.000007161 20 7 48%
1994 19 0.000005111 9 10 -5%
1995 22 0.000006007 16 6 45%
1996 23 0.000006306 15 8 30%
1997 12 0.00000331 12 100%
1998 34 0.000009244 24 10 41%
1999 44 0.000011912 33 11 50%
2000 28 0.000007408 18 10 29%
2001 42 0.00001122 33 9 57%
2002 44 0.00001177 35 9 59%
2003 51 0.000013413 39 12 53%
2004 66 0.000017273 55 11 67%
2005 70 0.000018206 56 14 60%
2006 113 0.000028563 100 13 77%
2007 109 0.000027266 93 16 71%
2008 127 0.00003231 114 13 80%
2009 152 0.000039789 134 18 76%
2010 217 0.000058716 185 32 71%
2011 239 0.00006534 206 33 72%
2012 283 0.000077378 254 29 80%
2013 388 0.000106428 340 48 75%
2014 447 0.000120603 403 44 80%
2015 471 0.000127266 405 66 72%
2016 684 0.000186442 595 89 74%
2017 787 0.000220066 676 111 72%
2018 778 0.000221281 666 112 71%
2019 851 0.000245179 745 106 75%
2020 1012 0.000302942 862 150 70%
2021 1418 0.000418542 1228 190 73%
2022 1828 0.000540327 1607 221 76%
2023 1769 0.000534248 1545 224 75%
2024 1659 0.000498423 1442 217 74%

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