Wilber

Where Wilber comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Wilber.

Wilber through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #356 among boys, with 23 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #317
    29 babies named Wilber, its best rank.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #491.
  4. 1968
    Wilber Sánchez born
    Cuban Olympic wrestler
  5. 1980
    Wilber Pan born
    Taiwanese-American singer, actor and entrepreneur
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Wilber Pan · Taiwanese-American singer, actor and entrepreneur, born 1980
  • Wilber Sánchez · Cuban Olympic wrestler, born 1968
  • Wilber M. Brucker · Governor of Michigan, United States Secretary of the Army, 1894–1968
  • Wilber Varela · Colombian drug trafficker, 1957–2008
  • Wilber Morris · Jazz musician, bassist, 1937–2002

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.