Wilfred
Last seen for girls in 1956 at #5,952 · #3,757 for boys in 2025, 29 births
Given to boys 99.7% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1917 · 772 births
- Debut · boys
- 21 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 29,417since 1880
Wilfred over time
Rank among boys' names. Wilfred has never cracked the top 100 here.
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 | — | #3,757 | 29 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,802 | 29 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,303 | 24 | |
| 2021 | — | #3,074 | 39 | |
| 2020 | — | #3,811 | 27 | |
| 2019 | — | #4,114 | 25 | |
| 2018 | — | #3,793 | 28 | |
| 2017 | — | #4,331 | 23 | |
| 2016 | — | #3,358 | 33 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,295 | 23 | |
| 2014 | — | #3,693 | 28 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,497 | 30 | |
| 2012 | — | #5,035 | 18 | |
| 2011 | — | #4,221 | 23 | |
| 2010 | — | #3,453 | 31 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,582 | 21 | |
| 2008 | — | #3,344 | 33 | |
| 2007 | — | #3,379 | 32 | |
| 2006 | — | #3,524 | 29 | |
| 2005 | — | #3,241 | 31 | |
| 2004 | — | #2,643 | 40 | |
| 2003 | — | #3,044 | 31 | |
| 2002 | — | #2,337 | 44 | |
| 2001 | — | #2,429 | 40 | |
| 2000 | — | #2,298 | 42 | |
| 1999 | — | #2,795 | 30 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,700 | 60 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,908 | 48 | |
| 1996 | — | #2,218 | 37 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,988 | 42 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,516 | 62 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,601 | 56 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,417 | 65 | |
| 1991 | — | #1,210 | 84 | |
| 1990 | — | #1,500 | 57 | |
| 1989 | — | #1,162 | 83 | |
| 1988 | — | #1,215 | 70 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,337 | 55 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,161 | 66 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,043 | 78 | |
| 1984 | — | #891 | 96 | |
| 1983 | — | #945 | 87 | |
| 1982 | — | #840 | 111 | |
| 1981 | — | #986 | 84 | |
| 1980 | — | #1,047 | 74 | |
| 1979 | — | #858 | 102 | |
| 1978 | — | #920 | 88 | |
| 1977 | — | #875 | 93 | |
| 1976 | — | #838 | 99 | |
| 1975 | — | #938 | 76 | |
| 1974 | — | #735 | 122 | |
| 1973 | — | #874 | 83 | |
| 1972 | — | #760 | 109 | |
| 1971 | — | #684 | 146 | |
| 1970 | — | #688 | 145 | |
| 1969 | — | #654 | 146 | |
| 1968 | — | #666 | 127 | |
| 1967 | — | #628 | 143 | |
| 1966 | — | #556 | 190 | |
| 1965 | — | #546 | 198 | |
| 1964 | — | #558 | 199 | |
| 1963 | — | #522 | 233 | |
| 1962 | — | #520 | 232 | |
| 1961 | — | #516 | 237 | |
| 1960 | — | #501 | 249 | |
| 1959 | — | #478 | 266 | |
| 1958 | — | #488 | 258 | |
| 1957 | — | #441 | 301 | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | #462 | 268 |
| 1955 | — | #437 | 283 | |
| 1954 | — | #452 | 255 | |
| 1953 | — | #407 | 294 | |
| 1952 | — | #401 | 297 | |
| 1951 | — | #386 | 306 | |
| 1950 | — | #383 | 305 | |
| 1949 | — | #377 | 316 | |
| 1948 | — | #397 | 292 | |
| 1947 | — | #382 | 322 | |
| 1946 | — | #364 | 321 | |
| 1945 | — | #347 | 293 | |
| 1944 | — | #320 | 350 | |
| 1943 | — | #312 | 395 | |
| 1942 | — | #328 | 341 | |
| 1941 | — | #330 | 308 | |
| 1940 | — | #312 | 325 | |
| 1939 | — | #287 | 369 | |
| 1938 | — | #276 | 404 | |
| 1937 | — | #273 | 397 | |
| 1936 | — | #264 | 420 | |
| 1935 | — | #270 | 409 | |
| 1934 | — | #264 | 423 | |
| 1933 | — | #251 | 432 | |
| 1932 | — | #230 | 521 | |
| 1931 | — | #230 | 514 | |
| 1930 | — | #214 | 601 | |
| 1929 | #4,053 | 6 | #209 | 612 |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 | #211 | 636 |
| 1927 | #4,805 | 5 | #194 | 742 |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 | #214 | 641 |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 | #187 | 737 |
| 1924 | — | #193 | 728 | |
| 1923 | — | #179 | 779 | |
| 1922 | #3,655 | 8 | #190 | 720 |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 | #189 | 737 |
| 1920 | #3,340 | 9 | #176 | 802 |
| 1919 | #3,452 | 8 | #184 | 695 |
| 1918 | #4,809 | 5 | #179 | 731 |
| 1917 | — | #164 | 772 | |
| 1916 | — | #165 | 723 | |
| 1915 | #2,526 | 11 | #181 | 626 |
| 1914 | — | #187 | 463 | |
| 1913 | #3,187 | 5 | #180 | 384 |
| 1912 | — | #185 | 317 | |
| 1911 | — | #182 | 168 | |
| 1910 | #2,398 | 5 | #242 | 97 |
| 1909 | — | #226 | 91 | |
| 1908 | — | #208 | 98 | |
| 1907 | — | #207 | 93 | |
| 1906 | — | #227 | 75 | |
| 1905 | — | #221 | 75 | |
| 1904 | — | #206 | 80 | |
| 1903 | — | #228 | 64 | |
| 1902 | — | #226 | 63 | |
| 1901 | — | #253 | 47 | |
| 1900 | — | #219 | 81 | |
| 1899 | — | #231 | 52 | |
| 1898 | — | #197 | 76 | |
| 1897 | — | #258 | 46 | |
| 1896 | — | #211 | 71 | |
| 1895 | — | #276 | 41 | |
| 1894 | — | #261 | 44 | |
| 1893 | — | #246 | 50 | |
| 1892 | — | #266 | 45 | |
| 1891 | — | #251 | 40 | |
| 1890 | — | #252 | 45 | |
| 1889 | — | #274 | 37 | |
| 1888 | — | #297 | 36 | |
| 1887 | — | #299 | 31 | |
| 1886 | — | #325 | 27 | |
| 1885 | — | #274 | 37 | |
| 1884 | — | #301 | 33 | |
| 1883 | — | #253 | 42 | |
| 1882 | — | #377 | 22 | |
| 1881 | — | #348 | 22 | |
| 1880 | — | #373 | 21 | |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Wilfred was already there! It came in at #373, and was given to 21 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2011–2012, when fewer than 24 boys a year got the name.
See more about Wilfred
- 944 spots since 2024 (#4,701 → #3,757)
- 54 spots since 2020 (#3,811 → #3,757)
- 538 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #3,757)
- Biggest jump: 146 spots in 1982 (#986 → #840)
- Biggest drop: 203 spots in 1975 (#735 → #938)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1917 at #164 (772 births)
- Births halved by 1939, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 104 yrs · run 1880–1979
- Highest: 1 in 1,199 boys born in 1917 were named Wilfred (0.08%)
- Latest: 1 in 58,899 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 24.3% of all boys named Wilfred (7,134) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 308 | #253 (1883) | #312 |
| 1890s | 510 | #197 (1898) | #245 |
| 1900s | 767 | #206 (1904) | #222 |
| 1910s | 4,976 | #164 (1917) | #185 |
| 1920s | 7,134 | #176 (1920) | #194 |
| 1930s | 4,490 | #214 (1930) | #256 |
| 1940s | 3,263 | #312 (1943) | #347 |
| 1950s | 2,833 | #383 (1950) | #434 |
| 1960s | 1,954 | #501 (1960) | #567 |
| 1970s | 1,063 | #684 (1971) | #817 |
| 1980s | 804 | #840 (1982) | #1,063 |
| 1990s | 541 | #1,210 (1991) | #1,785 |
| 2000s | 343 | #2,298 (2000) | #3,082 |
| 2010s | 262 | #3,358 (2016) | #3,979 |
| 2020s | 169 | #3,074 (2021) | #3,908 |
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.
Wilfred in 1927
Top girls' names in 1927
Top boys' names in 1927
More about 1927
girls
1,192,431 girls got a published name in 1927; 1 in 238,486 of them was named Wilfred, which outranked 14.2% of the 5,602 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 797 names at #4,805; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,126,915 boys got a published name in 1927; 1 in 1,519 of them was named Wilfred, which outranked 96.0% of the 4,802 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.