Wilba

Last seen for girls in 1941 at #3,954

Peak · girls
1913 · 18 births
Debut · girls
18 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
165
since 1913

Wilba over time

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Rank among girls' names. Wilba has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201913peak #1,358, 1913girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1941#3,9546
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1939#2,9229
1938#4,3425
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1936#4,1815
1935#3,7426
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1931#3,8486
1930#4,0476
1929#3,6827
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1927#3,5618
1926#4,3066
1925#3,6648
1924#3,3939
1923#3,6418
1922#5,0095
1921#4,0237
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1919#3,00510
1918#4,8095
1917#3,0929
1916#3,2588
1915#3,4347
1914#2,8767
1913#1,35818
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First appearance
1913

The first year at least five girls were named Wilba! It came in at #1,358, and was given to 18 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1920, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Wilba
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1941
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1913
  • Peaked 1913 at #1,358 (18 births)
  • Births halved by 1914, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 34,697
  • Highest: 1 in 34,697 girls born in 1913 were named Wilba (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 201,353 girls born in 1941 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 38.8% of all girls named Wilba (64) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s64#1,358 (1913)#3,119
1920s58#3,393 (1924)#3,910
1930s37#2,922 (1939)#3,847
1940s6#3,954 (1941)#3,954

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wilba in 1913

girls
#1,358
18 births · 1 in 34,697 girls

Top girls' names in 1913

  1. #1Mary36,642
  2. #2Helen18,888
  3. #3Dorothy14,674
  4. #4Margaret14,486
  5. #5Ruth12,609
  6. #6Mildred9,921
  7. #7Anna9,687
  8. #8Elizabeth9,505
  9. #9Frances7,694
  10. #10Marie7,353
  11. #1,358Wilba18
More about 1913

girls

624,546 girls got a published name in 1913; 1 in 34,697 of them was named Wilba, which outranked 63.4% of the 3,707 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wilba
  1. #1,308Verta19
  2. #1,308Vonda19
  3. #1,308Zita19
  4. #1,358Wilba18
  5. #1,358Adline18
  6. #1,358Aleta18
  7. #1,358Alyne18
  8. #1,405Alverna17
  9. #1,405Alys17
  10. #1,405Anice17

Tied with 46 names at #1,358; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1912
Risers
  1. 963Dominga#1,844#881
  2. 931Stacia#1,844#913
  3. 576Olympia#1,477#901
  4. 559Lilah#1,540#981
  5. 445Elfrieda#1,297#852
Fallers
  1. 806Karen#960#1,766
  2. 572Erie#833#1,405
  3. 559Gertha#846#1,405
  4. 527Lossie#938#1,465
  5. 505Ardelia#960#1,465

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1913