Entry № 11568 · English origin

Wren Wren — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ REN /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"The small bird"
Syllables
1
First recorded
Modern as given name

A name that means "the small bird".

Wren is the English name of the small, dark-brown songbird famous for its disproportionately loud voice. In British folklore the wren was the "king of the birds," said to have outwitted the eagle in a contest to fly the highest.

Wren has been used as a girl's name only since the 2010s. It entered the U.S. top 1000 in 2013 and is rising rapidly.

The smallest bird with the loudest song.

The name in its native script.

Wren
Transliteration
Wren
Pronunciation
/ rɛn /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wren stands.

Wren does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Wrens before her.

Real people

In fiction
Wren
Character in The Hunger Games series.

Names connected to Wren.

The number behind Wren.

6

The Nurturer

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wren reduce to 6, The Nurturer. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.