Wren is both an English surname and a gender neutral given name, both derived from the English name of the songbird.
It has recently increased in popularity as a name for girls and boys in the Anglosphere along with other names derived from the natural world. It has been ranked among the 1,000 most popular names for newborns in the United States since 2013 and among the top 500 names for girls in England and Wales since 2014. Wrenlee and Wrenley, which are elaborations of the name, have both increased in usage for girls in the United States as well.
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Surname
Alan Wren (born 1964), English rock drummer
Bob Wren (born 1974), Canadian ice hockey player
Brian Wren (born 1936), English hymn-poet and writer
Caroline Wren, political campaign worker
Christopher Wren (1632–1723), English architect and scientist
Christopher Wren (priest) (1589–1658), Anglican cleric, Dean of Windsor and father of the architect
Christopher Wren the Younger (1675–1747), English Member of Parliament, son of the architect
Daniel A. Wren (born ca. 1935), American business theorist
Frank Wren (born 1958), American baseball executive
Harold 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 (1938–2016), 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 (disambiguation)
Given name
Wren Blair (1925–2013), Canadian ice hockey coach
Wren Kosinski (born 2000), American rapper known as 'Ghost Mountain'
Wren T. Brown (born 1964), actor, producer, and theatre director
Wren Zhawenim Gotts (born 2013), American actress
Wren Hoskyns (1956–2015), British paediatrician
Wren Howard (1893–1968), British publisher
Wren Keasler, American actress
Wren Sinclair (born 1995), American wrestler
Wren Williams (born 1989), American politician
Fictional characters
Wren, a scientist from the movie Alien Resurrection
Wren Elessedil, a character from the Heritage of Shannara series of fantasy novels
Wren, protagonist of a series of fantasy 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 (comic strip)
Wren Natsworthy, daughter to Tom and Hester Natsworthy in the last installments of Philip 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, from the TV series Pretty Little Liars, played by Julian Morris
Sabine Wren, from the TV series Star Wars Rebels
Christopher Wren, in the Agatha Christie play The Mousetrap
Wren Graves, the child of Andrew and Ashley Graves in The Coffin of Andy and Leyley