Sparrow
Sparrow is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 44 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 440.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 201788 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1977
- 1,142people given the name
The story in the numbers
968 girls have been named Sparrow in the United States since 1977, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 88 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2017, and the 2010s alone account for 61%.
Sparrow is used for both sexes: 15% of its bearers are boys (174), most of them born around 2024.
By decade
In 2017, its biggest year
Sparrow was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2017 were Emma, Olivia, Ava, Isabella and Sophia. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Sparrow
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adaleighpeak 2020
- Aubriellepeak 2017
- Skarlettpeak 2016
- Elliettepeak 2019
- Jemmapeak 2018
- Adelynnpeak 2015
- Tinsleypeak 2020
- Briellapeak 2018
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.