Wilder
#3,517 for girls in 2025, 43 births · #429 for boys in 2025, 743 births
Given to boys 92.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2021 · 890 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 8,197since 1914
Wilder 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,517 | 43 | #429 | 743 |
| 2024 | #3,225 | 49 | #390 | 836 |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | #421 | 755 |
| 2022 | #2,142 | 89 | #374 | 867 |
| 2021 | #2,131 | 88 | #366 | 890 |
| 2020 | #2,416 | 72 | #426 | 695 |
| 2019 | #3,337 | 47 | #485 | 601 |
| 2018 | #3,050 | 53 | #527 | 540 |
| 2017 | #4,304 | 33 | #572 | 477 |
| 2016 | #3,923 | 38 | #726 | 338 |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | #958 | 215 |
| 2014 | #10,129 | 10 | #1,313 | 134 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #1,340 | 127 |
| 2012 | — | #1,657 | 93 | |
| 2011 | — | #2,129 | 62 | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #2,069 | 65 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #3,045 | 38 |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #2,237 | 59 |
| 2007 | — | #2,304 | 56 | |
| 2006 | — | #2,979 | 37 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,091 | 33 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,452 | 45 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,443 | 26 | |
| 2002 | — | #3,450 | 25 | |
| 2001 | — | #3,143 | 28 | |
| 2000 | — | #4,066 | 19 | |
| 1999 | — | #3,279 | 24 | |
| 1998 | — | #3,597 | 20 | |
| 1997 | — | #4,668 | 13 | |
| 1996 | — | #4,022 | 16 | |
| 1995 | — | #4,508 | 13 | |
| 1994 | — | #5,109 | 11 | |
| 1993 | — | #3,246 | 20 | |
| 1992 | — | #4,114 | 14 | |
| 1991 | — | #5,096 | 10 | |
| 1990 | — | #3,971 | 14 | |
| 1989 | — | #4,017 | 13 | |
| 1988 | — | — | ||
| 1987 | — | #5,459 | 7 | |
| 1986 | — | — | ||
| 1985 | — | #4,698 | 8 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
| 1982 | — | #5,619 | 6 | |
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| 1980 | — | #6,250 | 5 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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| 1969 | — | #3,935 | 6 | |
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| 1952 | — | #3,734 | 5 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,364 | 6 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
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| 1946 | — | #2,690 | 8 | |
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| 1942 | — | #2,940 | 7 | |
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| 1937 | — | #2,197 | 11 | |
| 1936 | — | #2,452 | 9 | |
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| 1931 | — | #3,390 | 6 | |
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| 1929 | — | #3,959 | 5 | |
| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | #3,076 | 8 |
| 1927 | — | #3,780 | 6 | |
| 1926 | — | #3,708 | 6 | |
| 1925 | #4,973 | 5 | #3,408 | 7 |
| 1924 | — | #3,505 | 7 | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | #3,467 | 7 |
| 1922 | — | #3,252 | 8 | |
| 1921 | — | #2,502 | 12 | |
| 1920 | — | #3,815 | 6 | |
| 1919 | — | #4,168 | 5 | |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #2,699 | 10 |
| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #2,621 | 9 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,271 | 9 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wilder! It came in at #2,271, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1929–1930, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Wilder
- 39 spots since 2024 (#390 → #429)
- 3 spots since 2020 (#426 → #429)
- 529 spots since 2015 (#958 → #429)
- Biggest jump: 355 spots in 2015 (#1,313 → #958)
- Biggest drop: 47 spots in 2023 (#374 → #421)
- Debuted 1914
- Peaked 2021 at #366 (890 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 2015–2025
- Highest: 1 in 1,966 boys born in 2021 were named Wilder (0.05%)
- Latest: 1 in 2,299 boys born in 2025 (0.04%)
- 58.4% of all boys named Wilder (4,786) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 47 | #2,271 (1914) | #3,039 |
| 1920s | 72 | #2,502 (1921) | #3,447 |
| 1930s | 26 | #2,197 (1937) | #2,680 |
| 1940s | 15 | #2,690 (1946) | #2,815 |
| 1950s | 16 | #3,364 (1951) | #3,593 |
| 1960s | 6 | #3,935 (1969) | #3,935 |
| 1970s | 5 | #4,986 (1972) | #4,986 |
| 1980s | 51 | #4,017 (1989) | #5,298 |
| 1990s | 155 | #3,246 (1993) | #4,161 |
| 2000s | 366 | #2,237 (2008) | #3,021 |
| 2010s | 2,652 | #485 (2019) | #1,178 |
| 2020s | 4,786 | #366 (2021) | #401 |
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.
Wilder in 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
Top boys' names in 2017
More about 2017
girls
1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 52,317 of them was named Wilder, which outranked 76.7% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,220Wisdom34
- #4,220Zaara34
- #4,220Zamya34
- #4,304Wilder33
- #4,304Aasiyah33
- #4,304Addisen33
- #4,304Aeva33
- #4,384Aaliah32
- #4,384Aashi32
- #4,384Adhya32
Tied with 79 names at #4,304; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,850,956 boys got a published name in 2017; 1 in 3,880 of them was named Wilder, which outranked 96.0% of the 14,262 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).