Wilder

Where Wilder comes from

Wilder hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1891
    Wilder Penfield born
    Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach
  2. 1914
    First appearance
    #2,271 among boys, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1994
    Wilder Cartagena born
    Peruvian footballer
  4. 2021
    Peak, #366
    890 babies named Wilder — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Wilder Penfield · Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach, 1891–1976
  • Wilder Cartagena · Peruvian footballer, born 1994
  • Wilder Viera · Paraguayan footballer, born 2002
  • Wilder Guisao · Colombian association football player, born 1991
  • Wilder Medina · Colombian footballer, born 1981

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.