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Wrenleigh vs Wrenley

American parents have registered 8,069 Wrenleys since 1880, against 1,366 Wrenleighs. Wrenley is still ahead, with 1,869 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Wrenleigh 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 2018, when Wrenleigh had 21 and Wrenley had 85.

Side by side

  Wrenleigh Wrenley
Total US births 1,3668,069
Most in one year 4142,005
Babies in 2025 4141,869
Estimated living today 1,4008,000
Median age today 12
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 683rd girls148th girls
Rank in 2025 683rd158th
First recorded 20162013
Girls / boys 1,366 / 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: Wrenleigh and Wrenley.