Wylie

Where Wylie comes from

Wylie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #438
    15 babies named Wylie — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1889
    Wylie Watson born
    British actor
  4. 1891
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #963.
  5. 2000
    Wylie Stateman born
    American sound engineer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Wylie Stateman · American sound engineer, born 2000
  • Wylie Watson · British actor, 1889–1966
  • Wylie Cameron Grant · American tennis player, 1879–1968
  • Wylie Gibbs · Australian politician, 1922–2026
  • Wylie Human · South African rugby union footballer, born 1979

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.