Wren (name)
Wren is both an English surname and a given name, both derived from the English name of the songbird.
| Origin | |
|---|---|
| Meaning | derived from the name of the songbird |
It has recently increased in popularity as a name for girls in the Anglosphere along with other names derived from the natural world. It has been ranked among the 1,000 most popular names for newborn girls in the United States since 2013 and among the top 500 names for girls in England and Wales since 2014.[1] [2] [3]
Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Alan Wren (born 1964), English rock drummer
- Bob Wren (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player
- Christopher Wren (1632–1723), English architect and scientist
- Daniel A. Wren (born ca. 1935) is an American business theorist
- Frank Wren (born 1958), American baseball executive
- Harold G. Wren (1921–2016), American dean of three law schools
- Jackie Wren (1936–2020), Scottish footballer
- John Wren (1871–1953), Australian businessman
- Kyle Wren (born 1991), American baseball player
- M. K. Wren (born 1938), American author
- Margery Wren (1850–1930), English murder victim
- Matthew Wren (1585–1667), English clergyman and scholar
- P. C. Wren (1875–1941), British author
- Renell Wren (born 1995), American football player
- Thomas Wren (1826–1904), American politician
Given name:
- Wren Blackberry, American teacher and author
- Wren Blair (born 1925), former Canadian ice hockey coach
Fictional characters:
- Wren, a scientist from the movie Alien: Resurrection
- The Wren, an escape artist from the movie Cube
- Wren Elessedil, a character from the Heritage of Shannara series of fantasy novels
- Wren (Sherwood Smith character), the orphanage-director-assigned name of the protagonist of a series of fantasy-fiction books by Sherwood Smith
- an android from the video game Phantasy Star III
- an android from the video game Phantasy Star IV
- Wren MacPherson, the third and youngest child of Darryl and Wanda McPherson in the comic strip Baby Blues
- Wren Natsworthy, daughter to Tom and Hester Natsworthy in the last installments of Phillip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet
- Wren Douglas, a plus-sized model and author in Significant Others, the fifth book in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City series
- Wren Kingston, a character from the TV Series Pretty Little Liars, played by Julian Morris
- Sabine Wren, a character from the TV Series Star Wars Rebels
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