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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| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 | — | |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 | — | |
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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.
Where Sparrow is popular in 1977
No state had 5 or more girls named Sparrow in 1977, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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 1977
Top girls' names in 1977
More about 1977
girls
1,533,146 girls got a published name in 1977; 1 in 306,629 of them was named Sparrow, which outranked 14.8% of the 11,329 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,677 names at #9,652; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.