Sparrow
#4,067 for girls in 2025, 35 births · #6,143 for boys in 2025, 14 births
Given to girls 84.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2017 · 88 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,005since 1977
Sparrow over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,067 | 35 | #6,143 | 14 |
| 2024 | #3,395 | 46 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #5,666 | 16 |
| 2022 | #2,792 | 61 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | #2,533 | 69 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #2,931 | 55 | #5,699 | 15 |
| 2019 | #2,561 | 68 | #6,104 | 14 |
| 2018 | #2,532 | 69 | #10,760 | 6 |
| 2017 | #2,160 | 88 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #2,617 | 67 | #8,146 | 9 |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #2,683 | 65 | #8,781 | 8 |
| 2013 | #2,626 | 67 | #6,603 | 12 |
| 2012 | #3,267 | 50 | #9,709 | 7 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #4,494 | 32 | #12,231 | 5 |
| 2009 | #7,341 | 17 | — | |
| 2008 | #7,073 | 18 | — | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
| 2006 | #11,417 | 9 | — | |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | — | |
| 2004 | #12,761 | 7 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Sparrow! It came in at #9,652, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1977–1994, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Sparrow
- 672 spots since 2024 (#3,395 → #4,067)
- 1,136 spots since 2020 (#2,931 → #4,067)
- 1,008 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #4,067)
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 2017 at #2,160 (88 births)
- Births halved by 2025, 8 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 19,619 girls born in 2017 were named Sparrow (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 45,922 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 58.9% of all girls named Sparrow (592) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #9,652 (1977) | #9,652 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 20 | #9,553 (1995) | #11,472 |
| 2000s | 62 | #7,073 (2008) | #11,788 |
| 2010s | 592 | #2,160 (2017) | #3,057 |
| 2020s | 326 | #2,533 (2021) | #3,090 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Sparrow in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
Top boys' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 27,482 of them was named Sparrow, which outranked 86.0% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,648Samirah66
- #2,648Sia66
- #2,648Zayna66
- #2,683Sparrow65
- #2,683Aaniyah65
- #2,683Addelynn65
- #2,683Aislin65
- #2,714Angelia64
- #2,714Audri64
- #2,714Avayah64
Tied with 30 names at #2,683; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,920,871 boys got a published name in 2014; 1 in 240,109 of them was named Sparrow, which outranked 37.6% of the 14,081 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #8,130Zubin9
- #8,130Zuhair9
- #8,130Zyree9
- #8,781Sparrow8
- #8,781Aadan8
- #8,781Aarik8
- #8,781Aashir8
- #9,642Aaqil7
- #9,642Aaris7
- #9,642Aason7
Tied with 860 names at #8,781; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.