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Wrigley

About 1,021 American babies have been named Wrigley since 2003, most of them around 2017. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,765th. About 1,000 Wrigleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 8.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 20 40 60 80 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Wrigley boys named Wrigley

Girls and boys called Wrigley

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Wrigley crossed from girls to boys in 2008, and has stayed there for 9 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 71% boys, and in 2025 it was 81%.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 19 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
1,021
Estimated living today
1,000
Median age today
8
Peak year
2017
Best rank
2,295th
Rank in 2025
2,765th
First recorded
2003
Girls / boys
408 / 613

How old the living Wrigleys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,021 babies given the name since 2003, about 1,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 920 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.

Where Wrigley is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Wrigley is most concentrated in Indiana (21.1×), Illinois (5.9×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2017

The most popular boys’ names the year Wrigley peaked:

All the names of 2017

Related names

Wrigley against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.