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Wrenlee vs Wrenley

American parents have registered 8,069 Wrenleys since 1880, against 3,007 Wrenlees. Wrenley is still ahead, with 1,869 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wrenlee against Wrenley, 1880 to 2025 0 600 1.2k 1.8k 2.4k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wrenlee Wrenley

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Wrenley has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 2013 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2025, when Wrenlee had 851 and Wrenley had 1,869.

Side by side

  Wrenlee Wrenley
Total US births 3,0078,069
Most in one year 8772,005
Babies in 2025 8511,869
Estimated living today 3,0008,000
Median age today 12
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 354th girls148th girls
Rank in 2025 355th158th
First recorded 20162013
Girls / boys 3,007 / 07,948 / 121

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Wrenlee and Wrenley.