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Wrenleigh vs Wrenn

American parents have registered 1,366 Wrenleighs since 1880, against 507 Wrenns. Wrenleigh is still ahead, with 414 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wrenleigh against Wrenn, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wrenleigh Wrenn

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

Of the 22 years in which either name was published, Wrenn for 16 years and Wrenleigh for 6 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Wrenleigh Wrenn
Total US births 1,366507
Most in one year 41463
Babies in 2025 41447
Estimated living today 1,400500
Median age today 14
Peak year 20252021
Best rank 683rd girls3,002nd girls
Rank in 2025 683rd3,645th
First recorded 20161987
Girls / boys 1,366 / 0448 / 59

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.

Which name is older

Half of the Wrenns alive today are over 4; half the Wrenleighs are over 1. That is 3 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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 Wrenn.