Wilber

Where Wilber comes from

Wilber 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.

Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #356 among boys — 23 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1882
    Peak, #317
    29 babies named Wilber — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1886
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #491.
  4. 1968
    Wilber Sánchez born
    Cuban Olympic wrestler
  5. 1980
    Wilber Pan born
    Taiwanese-American singer, actor and entrepreneur
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Wilber Pan · Taiwanese-American singer, actor and entrepreneur, born 1980
  • Wilber Sánchez · Cuban Olympic wrestler, born 1968
  • Wilber M. Brucker · Governor of Michigan, United States Secretary of the Army, 1894–1968
  • Wilber Varela · Colombian drug trafficker, 1957–2008
  • Wilber Morris · Jazz musician, bassist, 1937–2002

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.