Warren
About 185,502 American babies have been named Warren since 1880, most of them around 1921. In 2025 it ranked 240th. About 87,000 Warrens are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 57.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Warren boys named Warren
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 185,502
- Estimated living today
- 87,000
- Median age today
- 57
- Peak year
- 1921
- Best rank
- 24th
- Rank in 2025
- 240th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 984 / 184,518
How old the living Warrens are
born that year still alive today
Of the 185,502 babies given the name since 1880, about 87,000 are alive — 47 in every hundred. Roughly 15,000 of them are children and 32,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1968 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 the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
From the Anglo-Norman surname (de) Warenne, a reference to a place called Varenne, a hamlet near Arques-la-Bataille, along the river Varenne in Normandy, from Medieval Latin Warinna, a hydronym of cel/cel-gau origin, from *var-, *ver- (“river, water”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see also the Latin river Avara. Phonetic Germanic influence is shown by the [v] > [w].
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Warrens
- Warren G. Harding (1865–1923)president of the United States from 1921 to 1923
- Warren Buffett (born 1930)American investor, entrepreneur and businessman
- Warren Beatty (born 1937)American actor and filmmaker
- Warren Christopher (1925–2011)U.S. Secretary of State
- Warren Hastings (1732–1818)Governor-General of Bengal, 1773–1785
- Warren Zaïre-Emery (born 2006)French footballer
- Warren Oates (1928–1982)American actor
- Warren E. Burger (1907–1995)chief justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986
People named Warren with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Warren is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Warren is most concentrated in the District of Columbia (2.0×), Louisiana (2.0×), Hawaii (1.9×), North Dakota (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1921
The most popular boys’ names the year Warren peaked:
Warren elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Warren | 6,920 | 234th |
| New Zealand boys | Warren | 3,223 | 36th |
| England and Wales boys | Warren | 2,813 | 198th |
| Ireland boys | Warren | 950 | 115th |
| Scotland boys | Warren | 357 | 156th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Warren | 55 | 192nd |
| Switzerland boys | Warren | 52 | 980th |
| Belgium boys | Warren | 46 | 712th |
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.
Warren: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Warren | 5 | 0.000% | 1,284th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Warren | 45 | 0.010% | 320th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Warren | 2 | 0.003% | 180th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Warren: rank by region
In 2024, Warren was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wallonia | Warren | 487 | 5 |
In 2024, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Warren appears in the lists for Province of Hainaut (221st).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Warren among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Warren | 10 | 29 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Warren 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.