Recently, the high surface quality of drawn wires and rods have been required from the field of automobile and machine. The surface flaw of a drawn wire has big influence on the quality of a product. Using three‐dimensional FEA, this study investigates growth of surface defects due to wire drawing when these on wire, wire breaks due to surface defects are common problems in wire drawing. As a cause of a surface flaw, rolling up of a wire rod and the poor handling at the time of conveyance are cited. The authors artificially produced transversal cracks and scratches on the surface of wires, and investigated the growth and disappearance of these cracks during drawing, by three‐dimensional FEA and experiments. If drawing out of the wire rod which has a flaw in the wire rod surface is repeated, it will become the check mark which the width of a flaw spreads and is known well in the production site. Furthermore, if drawing out is repeated, the compression stress of the direction of an axis by stress, and will become quite small. However, the crack of the direction of an axis remained and it was shown clearly that quality is affected. Moreover, the influence which the surface treatment of peeling has on a wire rod was also considered