Warren

A boys’ name of Old French origin, meaning game park or enclosed hunting ground.

Babies a year
907
the US, 2017
Rarity
Uncommon
among names in use
US popularity
#240
up from #262
UK popularity
#1124
26 babies

How Warren has moved

US popularity rank, 2015–2025. Lower is more popular.
#206#320#433201520202025#240

View as table
YearUS rank
2015#399
2016#387
2017#360
2018#338
2019#349
2020#343
2021#346
2022#335
2023#304
2024#262
2025#240

Warren by the numbers

In 2025, 26 babies in England and Wales were named Warren. In the US, 907 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 7,797 babies in 1921, so it is a 1920s name that has since fallen a long way.

At its height, in 1920, about 1 in 200 American boys born that year was called Warren.

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Warren as a share of American boys born, 1880 to 2008, at five year intervals. Source: US Social Security Administration.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Warren. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Wardenguardian or protector6 in the US (2017)
  • Warnerdefender or protector116 in the US (2017)
  • Waylenland beside the road; a modern respelling of Waylon93 in the US (2017)
  • Waldenvalley of the Welsh; foreigner's valley45 in the US (2017)
  • Wayden11 in the US (2017)
  • Waden7 in the US (2017)

Other names that mean the earth

Like Warren, each of these has the earth in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.

  • Brooklynbroken land; a new york borough5,239 in the US (2017)
  • Adamman, earth1,431 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Georgefarmer, earth worker3,082 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Waylonland beside the road2,434 in the US (2017)
  • Zionpromised land; the promised city374 in England and Wales (2025)
  • Jorgefarmer; worker of the earth1,547 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Warren

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