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 | ||
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| 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 | — | |
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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 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Tennessee#842 · 1 in 4,372
- Washington#946 · 1 in 5,178
- California#1,639 · 1 in 13,050
- Florida#1,829 · 1 in 14,327
- Texas#2,561 · 1 in 22,839
Best ever in a state: #828 in Missouri, 2020.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Tennessee | #842 | 7 | 1 in 4,372 |
| Washington | #946 | 6 | 1 in 5,178 |
| California | #1,639 | 15 | 1 in 13,050 |
| Florida | #1,829 | 6 | 1 in 14,327 |
| Texas | #2,561 | 7 | 1 in 22,839 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 19,619 of them was named Sparrow, which outranked 88.3% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,144Nour89
- #2,144Tracy89
- #2,144Zaida89
- #2,160Sparrow88
- #2,160Abigale88
- #2,160Abilene88
- #2,160Adalyne88
- #2,184Adah87
- #2,184Ashly87
- #2,184Cailyn87
Tied with 23 names at #2,160; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 168,269 of them was named Sparrow, which outranked 50.3% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #6,685Ziair12
- #6,685Ziyan12
- #6,685Zyonn12
- #7,095Sparrow11
- #7,095Aaban11
- #7,095Aalijah11
- #7,095Aashrith11
- #7,546Aadhi10
- #7,546Aakil10
- #7,546Aarian10
Tied with 450 names at #7,095; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.