Wilkes
- #4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · boys
- 1923 · 8 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 318since 1916
Wilkes over time
Rank among boys' names. Wilkes has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #4,321 | 24 |
| 2023 | #4,886 | 20 |
| 2022 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #4,628 | 21 |
| 2020 | #5,980 | 14 |
| 2019 | #5,153 | 18 |
| 2018 | #3,607 | 30 |
| 2017 | #7,095 | 11 |
| 2016 | #5,555 | 16 |
| 2015 | #8,744 | 8 |
| 2014 | #6,632 | 12 |
| 2013 | #8,789 | 8 |
| 2012 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #6,578 | 12 |
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| 2009 | #10,994 | 6 |
| 2008 | #7,698 | 10 |
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| 2006 | #9,585 | 7 |
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| 1977 | #5,845 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #3,886 | 5 |
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| 1947 | #3,370 | 6 |
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| 1941 | #3,505 | 5 |
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| 1923 | #3,175 | 8 |
| 1922 | #4,307 | 5 |
| 1921 | #3,214 | 8 |
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| 1919 | #3,736 | 6 |
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| 1916 | #3,516 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wilkes! It came in at #3,516, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1917–1918, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Wilkes is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Georgia#990 · 1 in 6,278
Best ever in a state: #990 in Georgia, 2025.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Georgia | #990 | 8 | 1 in 6,278 |
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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 Wilkes
- 536 spots since 2024 (#4,321 → #4,857)
- 1,123 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #4,857)
- 3,887 spots since 2015 (#8,744 → #4,857)
- Debuted 1916
- Peaked 1923 at #3,175 (8 births)
- Births halved by 1924, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 60,539 boys born in 2018 were named Wilkes (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 85,404 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,175 in 1923, was only 1 in 137,013 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.3% of all boys named Wilkes (125) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 12 | #3,516 (1916) | #3,626 |
| 1920s | 21 | #3,175 (1923) | #3,565 |
| 1930s | 0 | — | — |
| 1940s | 11 | #3,370 (1947) | #3,438 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,886 (1955) | #3,886 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 5 | #5,845 (1977) | #5,845 |
| 1980s | 0 | — | — |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 23 | #7,698 (2008) | #9,426 |
| 2010s | 125 | #3,607 (2018) | #6,635 |
| 2020s | 116 | #4,321 (2024) | #5,020 |
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.
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