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Wrenley vs Wrenly

American parents have registered 8,069 Wrenleys since 1880, against 1,008 Wrenlys. Wrenley is still ahead, with 1,869 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Wrenley Wrenly

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 13 years in which either name was published, Wrenley for 12 years and Wrenly for 1 year. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Wrenley Wrenly
Total US births 8,0691,008
Most in one year 2,005207
Babies in 2025 1,869189
Estimated living today 8,0001,000
Median age today 22
Peak year 20242024
Best rank 148th girls1,160th girls
Rank in 2025 158th1,204th
First recorded 20132013
Girls / boys 7,948 / 121993 / 15

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: Wrenley and Wrenly.