Wylder
#3,645 for girls in 2025, 41 births · #669 for boys in 2025, 407 births
Given to boys 91.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 407 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,513since 2005
Wylder 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,645 | 41 | #669 | 407 |
| 2024 | #4,560 | 30 | #677 | 403 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 | #718 | 370 |
| 2022 | #4,041 | 36 | #855 | 283 |
| 2021 | #5,398 | 23 | #973 | 229 |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | #1,209 | 156 |
| 2019 | #5,798 | 21 | #1,347 | 133 |
| 2018 | #6,792 | 17 | #1,375 | 128 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 | #1,518 | 109 |
| 2016 | #8,393 | 13 | #1,975 | 73 |
| 2015 | #10,866 | 9 | #2,600 | 47 |
| 2014 | — | #3,787 | 27 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,060 | 36 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,131 | 24 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,509 | 21 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,087 | 11 | |
| 2009 | — | #5,102 | 18 | |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | — | #6,622 | 12 | |
| 2006 | — | #9,585 | 7 | |
| 2005 | — | #10,151 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wylder! It came in at #10,151, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2005–2006, when fewer than 8 boys a year got the name.
Where Wylder 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.
- Oklahoma#596 · 1 in 3,076
- Alabama#727 · 1 in 4,529
- Colorado#783 · 1 in 5,164
- Arizona#807 · 1 in 5,573
- Washington#843 · 1 in 5,678
Best ever in a state: #97 in Wyoming, 2024.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #596 | 6 | 1 in 3,076 |
| Alabama | #727 | 5 | 1 in 4,529 |
| Colorado | #783 | 5 | 1 in 5,164 |
| Arizona | #807 | 6 | 1 in 5,573 |
| Washington | #843 | 6 | 1 in 5,678 |
| North Carolina | #967 | 7 | 1 in 7,164 |
| Ohio | #1,256 | 5 | 1 in 11,314 |
| Georgia | #1,297 | 5 | 1 in 10,388 |
| Texas | #1,329 | 13 | 1 in 13,426 |
| California | #1,529 | 11 | 1 in 18,468 |
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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 Wylder
- 8 spots since 2024 (#677 → #669)
- 540 spots since 2020 (#1,209 → #669)
- 1,931 spots since 2015 (#2,600 → #669)
- Biggest jump: 236 spots in 2021 (#1,209 → #973)
- Debuted 2005
- Peaked 2025 at #669 (407 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 5 yrs · run 2021–2025
- Highest: 1 in 4,197 boys born in 2025 were named Wylder (0.02%)
- 73.5% of all boys named Wylder (1,848) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | 56 | #5,102 (2009) | #7,571 |
| 2010s | 609 | #1,347 (2019) | #3,139 |
| 2020s | 1,848 | #669 (2025) | #850 |
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.
Wylder 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 79,922 of them was named Wylder, which outranked 67.8% 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).
- #5,612Zoila22
- #5,612Zuria22
- #5,612Zurie22
- #5,798Wylder21
- #5,798Adeena21
- #5,798Aeliana21
- #5,798Afia21
- #5,986Aara20
- #5,986Aaron20
- #5,986Adel20
Tied with 187 names at #5,798; 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 13,490 of them was named Wylder, which outranked 90.5% 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).
- #1,340Nikola134
- #1,340Roderick134
- #1,340Ross134
- #1,347Wylder133
- #1,347Aston133
- #1,347Darryl133
- #1,347Jael133
- #1,354Atreyu132
- #1,354Cassian132
- #1,354Crue132
Tied with 6 names at #1,347; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.