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Wrenleigh vs Wrenly

American parents have registered 1,366 Wrenleighs since 1880, against 1,008 Wrenlys. Wrenleigh is still ahead, with 414 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wrenleigh against Wrenly, 1880 to 2025 0 125 250 375 500 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wrenleigh 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 12 years in which either name was published, Wrenly for 8 years and Wrenleigh for 4 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Wrenleigh Wrenly
Total US births 1,3661,008
Most in one year 414207
Babies in 2025 414189
Estimated living today 1,4001,000
Median age today 12
Peak year 20252024
Best rank 683rd girls1,160th girls
Rank in 2025 683rd1,204th
First recorded 20162013
Girls / boys 1,366 / 0993 / 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: Wrenleigh and Wrenly.