Wilborn

Last seen for boys in 1968 at #4,136

Peak · boys
1911 · 8 births
Debut · boys
8 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
396
since 1911

Wilborn over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Wilborn has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201939peak #1,290, 1911boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1968#4,1365
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1933#3,2686
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1931#3,3906
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1929#2,58910
1928#3,6976
1927#2,29813
1926#1,78719
1925#3,4087
1924#1,57724
1923#2,33113
1922#2,14315
1921#1,54924
1920#2,13115
1919#2,38512
1918#2,39812
1917#2,09114
1916#2,38911
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1913#2,4966
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First appearance
1911

The first year at least five boys were named Wilborn! It came in at #1,290, and was given to 8 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1912, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Wilborn is popular in 1939

No state had 5 or more boys named Wilborn in 1939, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wilborn
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1968
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1911
  • Peaked 1911 at #1,290 (8 births)
  • Births halved by 1912, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 28,246
  • Highest: 1 in 28,246 boys born in 1911 were named Wilborn (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 347,595 boys born in 1968 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 36.9% of all boys named Wilborn (146) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s84#1,290 (1911)#2,183
1920s146#1,549 (1921)#2,351
1930s90#1,795 (1939)#2,383
1940s54#2,405 (1943)#2,824
1950s12#3,095 (1952)#3,447
1960s10#4,048 (1963)#4,092

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.

Wilborn in 1939

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#1,795
15 births · 1 in 73,790 boys

Top boys' names in 1939

  1. #1Robert59,666
  2. #2James59,636
  3. #3John51,025
  4. #4William42,071
  5. #5Richard35,386
  6. #6Charles30,789
  7. #7David25,360
  8. #8Donald24,056
  9. #9Thomas22,129
  10. #10Ronald19,837
  11. #1,795Wilborn15
More about 1939

boys

1,106,852 boys got a published name in 1939; 1 in 73,790 of them was named Wilborn, which outranked 54.8% of the 3,968 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wilborn
  1. #1,712Winifred16
  2. #1,712Xavier16
  3. #1,712Ysidro16
  4. #1,795Wilborn15
  5. #1,795Anita15
  6. #1,795Anne15
  7. #1,795Aubery15
  8. #1,879Alger14
  9. #1,879Alvan14
  10. #1,879Amado14

Tied with 83 names at #1,795; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1938
Risers
  1. ↑ 463Alfonzo#1,439 → #976
  2. ↑ 447Rod#1,439 → #992
  3. ↑ 443Estel#1,397 → #954
  4. ↑ 422Cameron#1,364 → #942
  5. ↑ 421Turner#1,337 → #916
Fallers
  1. ↓ 518Gonzalo#779 → #1,297
  2. ↓ 497Judge#992 → #1,489
  3. ↓ 396Melville#963 → #1,359
  4. ↓ 355Agustin#883 → #1,238
  5. ↓ 351Antone#921 → #1,272

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1939 →