Wil
#12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 30 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,094since 1953
Wil over time
Rank among boys' names. Wil has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #12,008 | 5 |
| 2024 | #9,894 | 7 |
| 2023 | #10,821 | 6 |
| 2022 | #6,828 | 12 |
| 2021 | #8,825 | 8 |
| 2020 | #9,554 | 7 |
| 2019 | #7,643 | 10 |
| 2018 | #9,670 | 7 |
| 2017 | #6,338 | 13 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #5,720 | 15 |
| 2011 | #5,675 | 15 |
| 2010 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #4,922 | 19 |
| 2008 | #4,044 | 25 |
| 2007 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #2,832 | 40 |
| 2005 | #2,399 | 48 |
| 2004 | #2,741 | 38 |
| 2003 | #2,269 | 47 |
| 2002 | #3,259 | 27 |
| 2001 | #2,618 | 36 |
| 2000 | #2,379 | 40 |
| 1999 | #2,199 | 42 |
| 1998 | #2,094 | 44 |
| 1997 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #2,590 | 29 |
| 1995 | #2,556 | 29 |
| 1994 | #2,502 | 30 |
| 1993 | #2,865 | 24 |
| 1992 | #2,253 | 33 |
| 1991 | #2,606 | 26 |
| 1990 | #2,308 | 30 |
| 1989 | #2,469 | 26 |
| 1988 | #2,090 | 30 |
| 1987 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #3,131 | 15 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
| 1981 | #5,468 | 6 |
| 1980 | #4,940 | 7 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
| 1977 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #5,587 | 5 |
| 1975 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #4,054 | 7 |
| 1972 | #3,622 | 8 |
| 1971 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1970 | #2,739 | 12 |
| 1969 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,673 | 6 |
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| 1965 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1964 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #2,673 | 10 |
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| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
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| 1953 | #3,798 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wil! It came in at #3,798, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953–1962, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wil is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#819 · 1 in 11,664
Best ever in a state: #819 in Ohio, 1998.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #819 | 6 | 1 in 11,664 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Wil
- 2,114 spots since 2024 (#9,894 → #12,008)
- 2,454 spots since 2020 (#9,554 → #12,008)
- 7,118 spots since 2015 (#4,890 → #12,008)
- Debuted 1953
- Peaked 1988 at #2,090 (30 births)
- Births halved by 2011, 23 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 41,611 boys born in 2005 were named Wil (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #2,090 in 1988, was only 1 in 63,809 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.7% of all boys named Wil (358) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 5 | #3,798 (1953) | #3,798 |
| 1960s | 32 | #2,673 (1963) | #3,592 |
| 1970s | 63 | #2,739 (1970) | #4,482 |
| 1980s | 126 | #2,090 (1988) | #3,850 |
| 1990s | 312 | #2,094 (1998) | #2,495 |
| 2000s | 358 | #2,269 (2003) | #3,049 |
| 2010s | 153 | #3,994 (2010) | #6,049 |
| 2020s | 45 | #6,828 (2022) | #9,655 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Wil in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
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1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 43,440 of them was named Wil, which outranked 81.5% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,068Shad45
- #2,068Thor45
- #2,068Uziel45
- #2,094Wil44
- #2,094Adin44
- #2,094Alize44
- #2,094Antoni44
- #2,126Aramis43
- #2,126Chayse43
- #2,126Christon43
Tied with 31 names at #2,094; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.