Wren
2025 SSA
About Wren
Wren, a lilting songbird name, could be the next Robin. Wren entered the Top 1000 for the first time in 2012 and is among the new wave of popular English names for girls.
Wren makes a particularly pleasing middle name choice, as does her newly discovered cousin Lark. But it's more popular as a middle name than you might think, the quirkier cousin of Rose.
This petite bird was regarded in Ireland as the "magician of the birds" and the Druids considered it a bird of prophecy. Thanks to an early fable, it has also been known as King of the Birds.
For architects there's the link to the great Sir Christopher Wren, the celebrated eighteenth century designer of London's St. Paul's Cathedral.
Pronounced REN.
As of October 2026, Wren ranked #231 in US births in 2025 SSA, peaked at #184 in 2022, Nameberry popularity #110.
Popularity & trends
Data table
| Year | US rank | Births | Per million |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | #702 | 403 | 225.6 |
| 2015 | #706 | 405 | 226.9 |
| 2016 | #524 | 595 | 335.8 |
| 2017 | #464 | 676 | 391.6 |
| 2018 | #468 | 666 | 391.5 |
| 2019 | #425 | 745 | 443.9 |
| 2020 | #360 | 862 | 533.2 |
| 2021 | #251 | 1,228 | 748.4 |
| 2022 | #184 | 1,607 | 979.8 |
| 2023 | #195 | 1,545 | 962.9 |
| 2024 | #213 | 1,442 | 890 |
| 2025 | #231 | 1,331 | 828.1 |
World rankings
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Wren on lists
Famous Wrens
- Wren Blackberry
American children's author
- L'Wren Scott (born Laura "Luann" Bambrough)
American fashion designer
- Wren Lee Keasler (b. 1994)
daughter of actress Shannon Lee; granddaughter of actor Bruce Lee
Wren in pop culture
- Wren MacPherson
baby in comic strip "Baby Blues"
- Wren DeSantis
character in film "Fun Size"
- Wren Avery
twin sister of Cath in "Fangirl" by Rainbow Rowell
- Wren
alias used by Abby Appleby in "Nightingale" by Jennifer Estep
- Wren
character in the video game "Costume Quest"
- Wren Elessedil
character in the Heritage of Shannara series by Terry Brooks
- Wren
main character in novels by Sherwood Smith
- Wren Natsworthy
character in Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet
- Wren Douglas
character in Significant Others by Armistead Maupin
- "Wren
" novel by Marie Killilea
- Wren
term used for a member of the Women's Royal Naval Service
- Wren Skonos
Character in the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard