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 2016
Top girls' names in 2016
Top boys' names in 2016
More about 2016
girls
1,772,022 girls got a published name in 2016; 1 in 26,448 of them was named Sparrow, which outranked 86.1% of the 18,885 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,594Rina68
- #2,594Royale68
- #2,594Simran68
- #2,617Sparrow67
- #2,617Alizabeth67
- #2,617Arianne67
- #2,617Brynna67
- #2,643Aalayah66
- #2,643Adrielle66
- #2,643Amna66
Tied with 25 names at #2,617; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,897,738 boys got a published name in 2016; 1 in 210,860 of them was named Sparrow, which outranked 42.7% of the 14,207 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #7,605Zayon10
- #7,605Zebedee10
- #7,605Zyren10
- #8,146Sparrow9
- #8,146Aaban9
- #8,146Aadon9
- #8,146Aanav9
- #8,816Aarion8
- #8,816Aaris8
- #8,816Aaro8
Tied with 669 names at #8,146; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.