Wilkie
Last seen for girls in 1927 at #3,875 · Last seen for boys in 1978 at #5,772
Given to boys 95.0% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1940 · 61 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 340since 1914
Wilkie 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
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| 1978 | — | #5,772 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,441 | 6 | |
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| 1970 | — | #4,724 | 5 | |
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| 1967 | — | #3,966 | 5 | |
| 1966 | — | #3,948 | 5 | |
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| 1964 | — | #2,854 | 9 | |
| 1963 | — | #4,048 | 5 | |
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| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
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| 1954 | — | #3,827 | 5 | |
| 1953 | — | #3,425 | 6 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,066 | 7 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,329 | 6 | |
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| 1947 | — | #2,076 | 14 | |
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| 1945 | — | #2,743 | 7 | |
| 1944 | — | #2,080 | 12 | |
| 1943 | — | #2,732 | 8 | |
| 1942 | — | #1,867 | 15 | |
| 1941 | — | #1,300 | 26 | |
| 1940 | — | #792 | 61 | |
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| 1938 | — | #3,175 | 6 | |
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| 1935 | — | #2,719 | 8 | |
| 1934 | — | #3,277 | 6 | |
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| 1932 | — | #2,638 | 9 | |
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| 1930 | — | #3,592 | 6 | |
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| 1928 | — | #4,151 | 5 | |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | #4,210 | 5 |
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| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | #4,197 | 5 |
| 1924 | — | #3,867 | 6 | |
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| 1922 | — | #2,630 | 11 | |
| 1921 | — | #3,517 | 7 | |
| 1920 | — | #2,602 | 11 | |
| 1919 | #4,251 | 6 | #3,736 | 6 |
| 1918 | — | #2,073 | 15 | |
| 1917 | — | #3,545 | 6 | |
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| 1914 | — | #2,915 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wilkie! It came in at #2,915, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Wilkie is popular in 1942
No state had 5 or more boys named Wilkie in 1942, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Wilkie
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1978
- Biggest drop: 508 spots in 1941 (#792 → #1,300)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 1940 at #792 (61 births)
- Births halved by 1941, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1940
- Highest: 1 in 19,003 boys born in 1940 were named Wilkie (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 328,367 boys born in 1978 (0.00%)
- 42.1% of all boys named Wilkie (143) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1927, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1910s | 33 | #2,073 (1918) | #3,067 |
| 1920s | 50 | #2,602 (1920) | #3,596 |
| 1930s | 35 | #2,638 (1932) | #3,080 |
| 1940s | 143 | #792 (1940) | #1,941 |
| 1950s | 39 | #3,033 (1958) | #3,296 |
| 1960s | 24 | #2,854 (1964) | #3,704 |
| 1970s | 16 | #4,441 (1972) | #4,979 |
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.
Wilkie in 1942
Top boys' names in 1942
More about 1942
boys
1,381,161 boys got a published name in 1942; 1 in 92,077 of them was named Wilkie, which outranked 53.8% of the 4,044 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,799Washington16
- #1,799West16
- #1,799Williard16
- #1,867Wilkie15
- #1,867Alvino15
- #1,867Antony15
- #1,867Ardis15
- #1,946Adron14
- #1,946Alf14
- #1,946Alferd14
Tied with 78 names at #1,867; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.