Wisdom
#2,778 for girls in 2025, 61 births · #1,244 for boys in 2025, 160 births
Given to boys 52.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 160 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,146since 1988
Wisdom 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 | #2,778 | 61 | #1,244 | 160 |
| 2024 | #3,047 | 53 | #2,637 | 50 |
| 2023 | #3,181 | 51 | #2,078 | 71 |
| 2022 | #2,894 | 58 | #2,022 | 75 |
| 2021 | #4,014 | 36 | #2,349 | 58 |
| 2020 | #3,498 | 43 | #2,886 | 41 |
| 2019 | #3,499 | 44 | #2,464 | 54 |
| 2018 | #3,497 | 44 | #2,472 | 52 |
| 2017 | #4,220 | 34 | #3,071 | 38 |
| 2016 | #3,523 | 44 | #2,726 | 44 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #2,641 | 46 |
| 2014 | #3,719 | 41 | #3,456 | 31 |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | #2,998 | 37 |
| 2012 | #4,216 | 35 | #2,905 | 40 |
| 2011 | #4,568 | 31 | #2,852 | 41 |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #3,453 | 31 |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 | #3,486 | 31 |
| 2007 | #4,050 | 38 | #4,375 | 22 |
| 2006 | #5,086 | 27 | #3,524 | 29 |
| 2005 | #4,958 | 26 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #4,287 | 32 | #4,793 | 17 |
| 2003 | #5,235 | 23 | #5,035 | 15 |
| 2002 | #4,906 | 24 | #6,088 | 11 |
| 2001 | #4,107 | 30 | #5,142 | 14 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #4,573 | 16 |
| 1999 | #5,039 | 21 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #4,366 | 25 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #6,618 | 8 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #5,982 | 9 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | — | |
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| 1991 | — | #8,236 | 5 | |
| 1990 | — | #6,415 | 7 | |
| 1989 | — | #6,941 | 6 | |
| 1988 | — | #5,751 | 7 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wisdom! It came in at #5,751, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1991–1994, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Wisdom
- 1,393 spots since 2024 (#2,637 → #1,244)
- 1,642 spots since 2020 (#2,886 → #1,244)
- 1,397 spots since 2015 (#2,641 → #1,244)
- Debuted 1988
- Peaked 2025 at #1,244 (160 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,675 boys born in 2025 were named Wisdom (0.01%)
- 39.7% of all boys named Wisdom (455) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2024, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 13 | #5,751 (1988) | #6,346 |
| 1990s | 60 | #4,537 (1999) | #6,489 |
| 2000s | 204 | #3,486 (2008) | #4,488 |
| 2010s | 414 | #2,464 (2019) | #2,904 |
| 2020s | 455 | #1,244 (2025) | #2,203 |
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.
Wisdom in 2005
Top girls' names in 2005
Top boys' names in 2005
More about 2005
girls
1,847,842 girls got a published name in 2005; 1 in 71,071 of them was named Wisdom, which outranked 74.2% of the 19,199 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #4,828Yulia27
- #4,828Zanaya27
- #4,828Zyasia27
- #4,958Wisdom26
- #4,958Aashna26
- #4,958Aasia26
- #4,958Aerin26
- #5,113Aaron25
- #5,113Adrielle25
- #5,113Akina25
Tied with 154 names at #4,958; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,997,305 boys got a published name in 2005; 1 in 86,839 of them was named Wisdom, which outranked 70.5% of the 13,370 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,815Wilhelm24
- #3,815Yamir24
- #3,815Zaylen24
- #3,941Wisdom23
- #3,941Abdi23
- #3,941Abiel23
- #3,941Abrar23
- #4,062Abrahim22
- #4,062Alexandru22
- #4,062Angelus22
Tied with 120 names at #3,941; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.