Wren

10,727 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wren in the 2020 census, making it the 3,288th most common in the country. That is about one person in 27,900.

By the numbers

People: 10,727
Rank: 3,288th
How common: 1 in 27,900
Per 100,000: 3.6

Where the name comes from

Origin a nickname

Originally a nickname, from Middle English wrenne (“wren”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wren described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 72.8%
Black, not Hispanic 17.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.4%
Hispanic or Latino 3.8%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Wren

Christopher Wren (1632–1723)English architect

People named Wren with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Wren

Wrenn

Also a first name

Wren has been given to 15,902 American babies as a first name since 1888, peaking in 2022. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.