Wrenn
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- REN
- Origin
- English
- UK rank, 2025
- #3,776 for girls
- US rank, 2025
- #3,644 for girls
Wrenn is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “wren, a small songbird”. In 2025 it ranked 3,776th for girls in the UK (6 babies) and 3,644th for girls in the US (41 babies).
What does Wrenn mean?
English: spelling of Wren; bird name, from Old English wrenna
“wren, a small songbird”
From the bird name; Sir Christopher Wren, architect of St Paul's Cathedral, bore it as a surname.
Meaning borrowed from Wren. More on Wiktionary.
Is Wrenn a girl's or a boy's name?
Wrenn is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 6 girls in the UK and 41 girls and 6 boys in the US.
How popular is Wrenn in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,776th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 6 about 1 in 46,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising fast up 175% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 6 girls in the UK were named Wrenn, making it the 3,776th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 2022, with 7 girls.
In 2025, 427 girls in the UK were given Wrenn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #149, up from #3,776 for this spelling alone.
Among girls in 2025, it was 3,704th in England and Wales.
Wrenn in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #3,776 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 5 | #4,251 |
| 2022 | 7 | #3,347 |
| 2021 | 5 | #4,148 |
| 2020 | 0 | – |
| 2019 | 4 | #4,904 |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 1 | #5,152 |
How popular is Wrenn in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 3,644th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 41 about 1 in 39,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 81% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 41 girls in the US were named Wrenn, making it the 3,644th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,167th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 55 girls. It first appears in the records in 2004. 6 boys were also named Wrenn in 2025 (10,690th for boys).
Half of all the girls named Wrenn in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,512 girls in the US were given Wrenn or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #236, up from #3,644 for this spelling alone.
In 2025, 87% of the babies named Wrenn in the US were girls.
Wrenn in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,644 |
| 2024 | 40 | #3,758 |
| 2023 | 46 | #3,428 |
| 2022 | 46 | #3,415 |
| 2021 | 55 | #3,002 |
| 2020 | 33 | #4,167 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,338 |
| 2018 | 22 | #5,615 |
| 2017 | 18 | #6,527 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,129 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,443 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,050 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,131 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,628 |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,339 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,510 |
| 2009 | 6 | #15,236 |
| 2008 | 5 | #17,498 |
| 2007 | 5 | #17,630 |
| 2006 | 7 | #13,601 |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,172 |
Names like Wrenn
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Ocean, Fiadh, Quinn, Eden, Maeve, Orla, Rowan, Caoimhe, Eireann, Maeva, Cove, Aoibheann
Other spellings of Wrenn
Names related to Wrenn
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Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Daisy, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hallie
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Wrenn: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wrenn, updated 20 October 2026.