Wilder
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #429 for boys in 2025, 743 births
Given to boys 92.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 890 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,197since 1914
Wilder over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | #429 | 743 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 | #390 | 836 |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | #421 | 755 |
| 2022 | #2,142 | 89 | #374 | 867 |
| 2021 | #2,131 | 88 | #366 | 890 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 | #426 | 695 |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 | #485 | 601 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #527 | 540 |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 | #572 | 477 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | #726 | 338 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | #958 | 215 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #1,313 | 134 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,340 | 127 |
| 2012 | — | #1,657 | 93 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,129 | 62 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | — | #2,304 | 56 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,979 | 37 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,452 | 45 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,443 | 26 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,450 | 25 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,143 | 28 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,066 | 19 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,668 | 13 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
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| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
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| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
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| 1937 | — | #2,197 | 11 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | #3,076 | 8 |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | #3,408 | 7 |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wilder! It came in at #2,271, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1930, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wilder is popular in 2012
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Oregon#580 · 1 in 3,614
- California#1,231 · 1 in 15,366
Best ever in a state: #36 in Vermont, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | #580 | 5 | 1 in 3,614 |
| California | #1,231 | 15 | 1 in 15,366 |
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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 Wilder
- 39 spots since 2024 (#390 → #429)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#426 → #429)
- 529 spots since 2015 (#958 → #429)
- Biggest jump: 355 spots in 2015 (#1,313 → #958)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 2023 (#374 → #421)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2021 at #366 (890 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,966 boys born in 2021 were named Wilder (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,299 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 58.4% of all boys named Wilder (4,786) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 47 | #2,271 (1914) | #3,039 |
| 1920s | 72 | #2,502 (1921) | #3,447 |
| 1930s | 26 | #2,197 (1937) | #2,680 |
| 1940s | 15 | #2,690 (1946) | #2,815 |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,364 (1951) | #3,593 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 51 | #4,017 (1989) | #5,298 |
| 1990s | 155 | #3,246 (1993) | #4,161 |
| 2000s | 366 | #2,237 (2008) | #3,021 |
| 2010s | 2,652 | #485 (2019) | #1,178 |
| 2020s | 4,786 | #366 (2021) | #401 |
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.
Wilder in 2012
Top boys' names in 2012
More about 2012
boys
1,896,946 boys got a published name in 2012; 1 in 20,397 of them was named Wilder, which outranked 88.4% of the 14,250 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,637Talen94
- #1,637Wes94
- #1,637Wilmer94
- #1,657Wilder93
- #1,657Ammar93
- #1,657Archie93
- #1,657Avan93
- #1,668Abdullahi92
- #1,668Avrohom92
- #1,668Calen92
Tied with 10 names at #1,657; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.