Wren

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Wren: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Wren: Recorded since 1999, its highest recorded position is #117, and it stood at #247 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
62times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#117highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2002	#3409
2003	#4373
2004	#3725
2005	#2438
2006	#5061
2007	#2233
2008	#1516
2009	#1596
2010	#2589
2011	#1096
2012	#812
2013	#528
2014	#481
2015	#400
2016	#334
2017	#252
2018	#233
2019	#210
2020	#217
2021	#184
2022	#150
2023	#129
2024	#128

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 24 of the 26 years from 1999 to 2024.

In 2024: #117 among girls in Scotland, #128 among girls in England and Wales, #212 among girls in Northern Ireland, #259 among girls in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1999–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1999
First recorded at #3900 among girls in England and Wales in 1999 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #247 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Wren appears in 5 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 24 years beginning in 1999, and has registered 2,824 births with the name.

Wren across 5 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Wren's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#128 (2024)	#128 (2024)	24 of 26	2,824 (1999–2024)	387 (2023)
England and Wales · Boys	#3158 (2008)	#579 (2023)	#602 (2024)	17 of 17	437 (2008–2024)	64 (2023)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#896 (2015)	#247 (2025)	#247 (2025)	10 of 11	89 (2015–2025)	17 (2025)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#273 (2018)	#212 (2024)	#212 (2024)	6 of 7	39 (2018–2024)	8 (2021)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#429 (2022)	#429 (2022)	#676 (2025)	4 of 4	19 (2022–2025)	8 (2022)

Wren by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Wren in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	67	8 of 10	8
2010s	1,166	10 of 10	117
2020sbusiest	1,588	5 of 10	318

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 318 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Wren appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #117 in Scotland in 2024.

Wren's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#128	377	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#602	63	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#129	387	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#579	64	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#150	326	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#615	59	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#184	279	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#688	51	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#217	219	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#723	45	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#210	236	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#874	34	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#233	216	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#821	38	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#252	197	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1470	17	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#334	147	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1363	19	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#400	115	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1902	12	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#481	89	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#3362	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#528	79	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3822	4	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#812	47	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#3987	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1096	31	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#3830	4	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#2941	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1596	17	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2544	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1516	18	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#3158	5	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2233	10	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#5061	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#2438	8	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#3725	4	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	female	#212	8	High	Verified
2023	Northern Ireland	female	#302	5	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	female	#218	8	High	Verified
2021	Northern Ireland	female	#223	8	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	female	#333	4	High	Verified
2018	Northern Ireland	female	#273	6	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#247	17	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#676	4	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	female	#259	16	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#655	4	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	female	#364	10	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#338	12	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#429	8	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	female	#336	12	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#628	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#629	5	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#873	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#585	6	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	female	#896	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	female	#117	38	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1999 and 2025, ranked in 25 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #117, first reached in 2024.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 387 births, registered in England and Wales in 2023.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 25 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Wyatt · #82, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Jaxson · #117, 22y
Milly · #116, 29y
Emmie · #115, 30y
Neve · #115, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Adelen · #117, 20y
Caspian · #117, 29y
Faolan · #116, 27y
Kurtis · #116, 31y

Wren was ranked #117 in Scotland · Girls in 2024. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Wren and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Wren without appearing here.

Wren moved ahead of

Debra Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5061 and #4157 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1516 and #5545.
Freddie Compare
In 2007 they stood at #5061 and #3548 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1516 and #5545.
George Compare
In 2007 they stood at #3725 and #2802 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2008 that had become #1516 and #5545.
Pauline Compare
In 2010 they stood at #2589 and #2589 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2011 that had become #1096 and #4764.

Moved the opposite way to Wren

Abigail Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 while Abigail went from #20 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 while Aimee went from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 while Aisling went from #410 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 while Alex went from #204 to #2253.

Moved the same way as Wren

Ada Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 and Ada from #2189 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 and Alma from #3225 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 and Alyssa from #483 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1999 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Wren went from #3900 to #128 and Amalie from #2770 to #1128.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1999 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #117 in Scotland in 2024. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Wren

Wren at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wren across 5 official records

Wren by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Wren appears in

Popularity data

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Wren at a glance

Wren across 5 official records

Wren by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Wren appears in

What the record shows

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Wren and the names beside it

Wren moved ahead of

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