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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 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 2019
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Alaska#141 · 1 in 415
- New Hampshire#219 · 1 in 862
- Maine#231 · 1 in 793
- Idaho#233 · 1 in 781
- Oregon#245 · 1 in 915
Best ever in a state: #36 in Vermont, 2021.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | #141 | 7 | 1 in 415 |
| New Hampshire | #219 | 5 | 1 in 862 |
| Maine | #231 | 5 | 1 in 793 |
| Idaho | #233 | 10 | 1 in 781 |
| Oregon | #245 | 18 | 1 in 915 |
| Alabama | #279 | 19 | 1 in 1,192 |
| South Carolina | #308 | 15 | 1 in 1,375 |
| Minnesota | #311 | 19 | 1 in 1,378 |
| Tennessee | #315 | 26 | 1 in 1,354 |
| Colorado | #318 | 19 | 1 in 1,359 |
| Missouri | #327 | 19 | 1 in 1,566 |
| West Virginia | #347 | 5 | 1 in 1,466 |
| Massachusetts | #353 | 14 | 1 in 2,010 |
| Wisconsin | #353 | 16 | 1 in 1,568 |
| Oklahoma | #419 | 10 | 1 in 1,846 |
| Utah | #424 | 10 | 1 in 1,936 |
| Michigan | #426 | 20 | 1 in 2,202 |
| Iowa | #441 | 7 | 1 in 2,055 |
| Washington | #444 | 16 | 1 in 2,129 |
| North Carolina | #447 | 21 | 1 in 2,388 |
| Arkansas | #476 | 6 | 1 in 2,218 |
| Georgia | #482 | 20 | 1 in 2,597 |
| Virginia | #483 | 15 | 1 in 2,633 |
| California | #507 | 63 | 1 in 3,225 |
| Ohio | #517 | 18 | 1 in 3,143 |
| Louisiana | #532 | 9 | 1 in 2,511 |
| Mississippi | #538 | 5 | 1 in 2,559 |
| New York | #554 | 27 | 1 in 3,465 |
| Texas | #556 | 52 | 1 in 3,356 |
| Kentucky | #577 | 6 | 1 in 3,414 |
| Indiana | #600 | 10 | 1 in 3,371 |
| Maryland | #635 | 7 | 1 in 3,722 |
| Arizona | #732 | 7 | 1 in 4,777 |
| Florida | #740 | 18 | 1 in 5,265 |
| Pennsylvania | #817 | 9 | 1 in 6,207 |
| Illinois | #818 | 10 | 1 in 5,751 |
| New Jersey | #993 | 5 | 1 in 7,950 |
| Connecticut | — | — | — |
| Delaware | — | — | — |
| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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| Wyoming | — | — | — |
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 2019
Top girls' names in 2019
Top boys' names in 2019
More about 2019
girls
1,678,366 girls got a published name in 2019; 1 in 35,710 of them was named Wilder, which outranked 81.5% of the 18,024 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,272Ziah48
- #3,272Zuleyka48
- #3,272Zyana48
- #3,337Wilder47
- #3,337Aiko47
- #3,337Alycia47
- #3,337Amairany47
- #3,388Aaliya46
- #3,388Ainara46
- #3,388Alaska46
Tied with 50 names at #3,337; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,794,216 boys got a published name in 2019; 1 in 2,985 of them was named Wilder, which outranked 96.6% of the 14,133 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.