Wisdom
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · #1,244 for boys in 2025, 160 births
Given to boys 52.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 160 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,146since 1988
Wisdom 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 | #2,778 | 61 | #1,244 | 160 |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | #2,078 | 71 |
| 2022 | #2,894 | 58 | #2,022 | 75 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | #2,349 | 58 |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 | #2,886 | 41 |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 | #2,472 | 52 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #2,641 | 46 |
| 2014 | #3,719 | 41 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #2,998 | 37 |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wisdom! It came in at #5,751, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wisdom is popular in 2015
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Florida#1,532 · 1 in 16,391
Best ever in a state: #541 in Georgia, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | #1,532 | 6 | 1 in 16,391 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
| Alaska | — | — | — |
| Arizona | — | — | — |
| Arkansas | — | — | — |
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| District of Columbia | — | — | — |
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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 Wisdom
- 1,393 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #1,244)
- 1,642 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #1,244)
- 1,397 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #1,244)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2025 at #1,244 (160 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,675 boys born in 2025 were named Wisdom (0.01%)
- 39.7% of all boys named Wisdom (455) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #5,751 (1988) | #6,346 |
| 1990s | 60 | #4,537 (1999) | #6,489 |
| 2000s | 204 | #3,486 (2008) | #4,488 |
| 2010s | 414 | #2,464 (2019) | #2,904 |
| 2020s | 455 | #1,244 (2025) | #2,203 |
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.
Wisdom in 2015
Top girls' names in 2015
Top boys' names in 2015
More about 2015
girls
1,785,098 girls got a published name in 2015; 1 in 46,976 of them was named Wisdom, which outranked 79.5% of the 19,130 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,842Yatziry39
- #3,842Yelena39
- #3,842Zulema39
- #3,915Wisdom38
- #3,915Airabella38
- #3,915Alaiah38
- #3,915Alainah38
- #3,989Aamira37
- #3,989Addeline37
- #3,989Adora37
Tied with 73 names at #3,915; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,916,743 boys got a published name in 2015; 1 in 41,668 of them was named Wisdom, which outranked 81.2% of the 14,059 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,600Suleiman47
- #2,600Wylder47
- #2,600Zaeden47
- #2,641Wisdom46
- #2,641Abimael46
- #2,641Adil46
- #2,641Ajani46
- #2,684Aarnav45
- #2,684Abbott45
- #2,684Ahron45
Tied with 42 names at #2,641; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.