Sparrow
Sparrow is a girl's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 2,160th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 4,067th. About 1,200 Sparrows are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Sparrow boys named Sparrow
Girls and boys called Sparrow
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 1,005 girls and 188 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 35 to 14.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 16 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,193
- Estimated living today
- 1,200
- Median age today
- 8
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 2,160th
- Rank in 2025
- 4,067th
- First recorded
- 1977
- Girls / boys
- 1,005 / 188
How old the living Sparrows are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,193 babies given the name since 1977, about 1,200 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2017 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Sparrows
- John Sparrow David Thompson (1845–1894)Prime Minister of Canada from 1892 to 1894
People named Sparrow with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Sparrow is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Sparrow is most concentrated in California (4.4×), Florida (3.2×), Texas (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Sparrow peaked:
Sparrow elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales girls | Sparrow | 4 | 4,645th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Related names
Sparrow against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.