Warren
Warren is ranked 262nd among boys in 2024 (1,327 births). Its best rank was 24th, in 1921.
- Rank in 2024
- #262up 44 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 1,3270.08% of boys
- Peak year
- 19217,798 births
- Best rank
- #24in 1921
- Since 1880
- 183,044people given the name
The story in the numbers
183,044 boys have been named Warren in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 7,798 births — 0.71% of all boys recorded that year.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago (rank 432 → 262).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1947, and the 1920s alone account for 21%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 29 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Warren | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,580 | |
| 1890s | 1,480 | |
| 1900s | 1,748 | |
| 1910s | 12,012 | |
| 1920s | 38,775 | |
| 1930s | 19,151 | |
| 1940s | 23,739 | |
| 1950s | 24,604 | |
| 1960s | 18,560 | |
| 1970s | 10,078 | |
| 1980s | 7,711 | |
| 1990s | 5,958 | |
| 2000s | 4,959 | |
| 2010s | 7,390 | |
| 2020s | 5,299 |
In 1921, its biggest year
Warren was the 24th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.
Names that rose and fell with Warren
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Wallacepeak 1923
- Winfredpeak 1922
- Mervinpeak 1920
- Leonardpeak 1921
- Alvinpeak 1927
- Norrispeak 1924
- Gilfordpeak 1922
- Bernardpeak 1924
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.