Wilene

Last seen for girls in 1956 at #3,910

Peak · girls
1938 · 15 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
161
since 1925

Wilene over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wilene has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201938peak #2,113, 1938girls
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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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1956#3,91010
1955#5,8285
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1952#5,5635
1951#4,3857
1950#3,42310
1949#3,8928
1948#5,2435
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1939#3,7826
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1933#3,1098
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1931#2,75010
1930#4,0476
1929#3,6827
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1926#4,3066
1925#4,4266
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First appearance
1925

The first year at least five girls were named Wilene! It came in at #4,426, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1928, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Wilene
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1956
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1925
  • Peaked 1938 at #2,113 (15 births)
  • Births halved by 1939, 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 73,564
  • Highest: 1 in 73,564 girls born in 1938 were named Wilene (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 200,770 girls born in 1956 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1930s
  • 39.1% of all girls named Wilene (63) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1920s26#3,682 (1929)#4,072
1930s63#2,113 (1938)#3,115
1940s35#2,572 (1940)#4,232
1950s37#3,423 (1950)#4,622

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.

Wilene in 1938

girls
#2,113
15 births · 1 in 73,564 girls

Top girls' names in 1938

  1. #1Mary56,225
  2. #2Barbara39,277
  3. #3Patricia27,560
  4. #4Betty25,506
  5. #5Shirley23,766
  6. #6Carol19,421
  7. #7Nancy18,951
  8. #8Dorothy16,358
  9. #9Margaret15,330
  10. #10Joan14,303
  11. #2,113Wilene15
More about 1938

girls

1,103,456 girls got a published name in 1938; 1 in 73,564 of them was named Wilene, which outranked 57.7% of the 4,995 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wilene
  1. #2,021Wilmer16
  2. #2,021Zena16
  3. #2,021Zettie16
  4. #2,113Wilene15
  5. #2,113Alena15
  6. #2,113Alfredia15
  7. #2,113Alvena15
  8. #2,225Adelene14
  9. #2,225Afton14
  10. #2,225Aldean14

Tied with 111 names at #2,113; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1937
Risers
  1. 2,209Danielle#2,940#731
  2. 833Lorelei#1,451#618
  3. 623Helaine#1,493#870
  4. 399Janine#1,330#931
  5. 392Imelda#1,282#890
Fallers
  1. 1,261Noreta#964#2,225
  2. 513Norita#532#1,045
  3. 432Noretta#856#1,288
  4. 366Ferne#950#1,316
  5. 327Verdell#904#1,231

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

See the top 100 for 1938