Wolfgang
#1,514 for boys in 2025, 115 births
- Peak · boys
- 2019 · 146 births
- Debut · boys
- 8 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,220since 1929
Wolfgang over time
Rank among boys' names. Wolfgang has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,514 | 115 |
| 2024 | #1,530 | 115 |
| 2023 | #1,315 | 145 |
| 2022 | #1,411 | 131 |
| 2021 | #1,280 | 148 |
| 2020 | #1,347 | 132 |
| 2019 | #1,277 | 146 |
| 2018 | #1,396 | 126 |
| 2017 | #1,455 | 117 |
| 2016 | #1,450 | 119 |
| 2015 | #1,475 | 113 |
| 2014 | #1,657 | 93 |
| 2013 | #2,009 | 68 |
| 2012 | #2,049 | 67 |
| 2011 | #1,738 | 84 |
| 2010 | #1,986 | 69 |
| 2009 | #2,119 | 64 |
| 2008 | #2,515 | 50 |
| 2007 | #3,025 | 38 |
| 2006 | #2,513 | 48 |
| 2005 | #2,265 | 52 |
| 2004 | #2,283 | 50 |
| 2003 | #2,206 | 49 |
| 2002 | #2,125 | 50 |
| 2001 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #1,749 | 58 |
| 1998 | #1,666 | 62 |
| 1997 | #1,790 | 53 |
| 1996 | #1,872 | 48 |
| 1995 | #1,577 | 59 |
| 1994 | #1,454 | 66 |
| 1993 | #2,455 | 30 |
| 1992 | #1,731 | 49 |
| 1991 | #2,544 | 27 |
| 1990 | #3,607 | 16 |
| 1989 | #3,446 | 16 |
| 1988 | #2,961 | 18 |
| 1987 | #3,201 | 15 |
| 1986 | #4,130 | 10 |
| 1985 | #3,805 | 11 |
| 1984 | #4,973 | 7 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #4,234 | 9 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 7 |
| 1978 | #4,157 | 8 |
| 1977 | #4,582 | 7 |
| 1976 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #2,902 | 13 |
| 1974 | #3,837 | 8 |
| 1973 | #3,013 | 11 |
| 1972 | #3,963 | 7 |
| 1971 | #3,370 | 9 |
| 1970 | #1,699 | 26 |
| 1969 | #2,415 | 13 |
| 1968 | #2,109 | 15 |
| 1967 | #2,760 | 9 |
| 1966 | #2,216 | 13 |
| 1965 | #2,476 | 11 |
| 1964 | #2,546 | 11 |
| 1963 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #2,364 | 12 |
| 1961 | #2,242 | 14 |
| 1960 | #2,042 | 16 |
| 1959 | #2,033 | 16 |
| 1958 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #2,274 | 13 |
| 1956 | #2,497 | 11 |
| 1955 | #2,558 | 10 |
| 1954 | #2,114 | 14 |
| 1953 | #2,186 | 13 |
| 1952 | #3,373 | 6 |
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| 1950 | #3,329 | 6 |
| 1949 | #3,690 | 5 |
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| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
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| 1932 | #3,092 | 7 |
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| 1930 | #3,592 | 6 |
| 1929 | #2,980 | 8 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wolfgang! It came in at #2,980, and was given to 8 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1931, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Wolfgang is popular in 1954
No state had 5 or more boys named Wolfgang in 1954, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Wolfgang
- 16 spots since 2024 (#1,530 → #1,514)
- 167 spots since 2020 (#1,347 → #1,514)
- 39 spots since 2015 (#1,475 → #1,514)
- Debuted 1929
- Peaked 2019 at #1,277 (146 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 11,797 boys born in 2023 were named Wolfgang (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 14,853 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #1,277 in 2019, was only 1 in 12,289 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.1% of all boys named Wolfgang (1,002) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 8 | #2,980 (1929) | #2,980 |
| 1930s | 19 | #3,092 (1932) | #3,312 |
| 1940s | 5 | #3,690 (1949) | #3,690 |
| 1950s | 102 | #2,033 (1959) | #2,514 |
| 1960s | 120 | #2,042 (1960) | #2,482 |
| 1970s | 104 | #1,699 (1970) | #3,638 |
| 1980s | 98 | #2,961 (1988) | #4,195 |
| 1990s | 468 | #1,454 (1994) | #2,045 |
| 2000s | 508 | #1,935 (2001) | #2,298 |
| 2010s | 1,002 | #1,277 (2019) | #1,649 |
| 2020s | 786 | #1,280 (2021) | #1,400 |
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.
Wolfgang in 1954
Top boys' names in 1954
More about 1954
boys
2,038,751 boys got a published name in 1954; 1 in 145,625 of them was named Wolfgang, which outranked 51.5% of the 4,360 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,044Vicki15
- #2,044Washington15
- #2,044Wells15
- #2,114Wolfgang14
- #2,114Algie14
- #2,114Alma14
- #2,114Alois14
- #2,207Aldon13
- #2,207Alen13
- #2,207Andrei13
Tied with 92 names at #2,114; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 504Arlin#878 → #1,382
- ↓ 347Adan#895 → #1,242
- ↓ 345Dayton#966 → #1,311
- ↓ 302Garey#966 → #1,268
- ↓ 293Bartholomew#975 → #1,268
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.