Meaning not yet researched.
Wilbert: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #160 in 1920.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #160 in 1920; #5,031 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wilbert in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,031 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1920, at #160.
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Wilbert: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #160 in 1920 · most boys in one year: 902 (1922).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Wilbert, making it the 5,031st most common boys’ name of the year, up 196 places from #5,227 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 19 boys named Wilbert in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #160, reached in 1920. The most boys given the name in a single year was 902, in 1922. For comparison, it was #3,678 in 2015 and #274 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wilbert in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 29 babies with the name. In all, 40,193 US babies have been given the name, 0.4% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 8,170 babies named Wilbert.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 241 US boys were named Wilbert; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Wilburt, Wilberth and Willbert are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wilburt (1,108), Wilberth (85), Willbert (31), Welbert (7).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Wilbert in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 20 | #5,031 |
| 2024 | — | — | 19 | #5,227 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,454 |
| 2022 | — | — | 26 | #4,182 |
| 2021 | — | — | 16 | #5,762 |
| 2020 | — | — | 27 | #3,913 |
| 2019 | — | — | 17 | #5,542 |
| 2018 | — | — | 27 | #3,985 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,373 |
| 2016 | — | — | 37 | #3,157 |
| 2015 | — | — | 30 | #3,678 |
| 2014 | — | — | 35 | #3,227 |
| 2013 | — | — | 38 | #2,995 |
| 2012 | — | — | 43 | #2,810 |
| 2011 | — | — | 42 | #2,850 |
| 2010 | — | — | 42 | #2,871 |
| 2009 | — | — | 56 | #2,346 |
| 2008 | — | — | 57 | #2,323 |
| 2007 | — | — | 60 | #2,234 |
| 2006 | — | — | 62 | #2,124 |
| 2005 | — | — | 67 | #1,919 |
| 2004 | — | — | 52 | #2,235 |
| 2003 | — | — | 59 | #1,984 |
| 2002 | — | — | 72 | #1,659 |
| 2001 | — | — | 58 | #1,911 |
| 2000 | — | — | 67 | #1,711 |
| 1999 | — | — | 55 | #1,822 |
| 1998 | — | — | 80 | #1,435 |
| 1997 | — | — | 77 | #1,422 |
| 1996 | — | — | 48 | #1,905 |
| 1995 | — | — | 81 | #1,311 |
| 1994 | — | — | 77 | #1,339 |
| 1993 | — | — | 86 | #1,226 |
| 1992 | — | — | 96 | #1,129 |
| 1991 | — | — | 104 | #1,070 |
| 1990 | — | — | 120 | #948 |
| 1989 | — | — | 99 | #1,044 |
| 1988 | — | — | 104 | #949 |
| 1987 | — | — | 112 | #891 |
| 1986 | — | — | 116 | #844 |
| 1985 | — | — | 114 | #844 |
| 1984 | — | — | 110 | #839 |
| 1983 | — | — | 136 | #742 |
| 1982 | — | — | 163 | #682 |
| 1981 | — | — | 145 | #720 |
| 1980 | — | — | 181 | #647 |
| 1979 | — | — | 158 | #680 |
| 1978 | — | — | 147 | #692 |
| 1977 | — | — | 181 | #625 |
| 1976 | — | — | 150 | #673 |
| 1975 | — | — | 160 | #649 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,747 | 198 | #570 |
| 1973 | — | — | 177 | #592 |
| 1972 | — | — | 183 | #590 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,304 | 198 | #585 |
| 1970 | — | — | 259 | #503 |
| 1969 | — | — | 272 | #464 |
| 1968 | — | — | 256 | #474 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,832 | 235 | #488 |
| 1966 | — | — | 291 | #453 |
| 1965 | 6 | #6,522 | 269 | #476 |
| 1964 | — | — | 326 | #444 |
| 1963 | — | — | 346 | #430 |
| 1962 | — | — | 345 | #430 |
| 1961 | — | — | 369 | #413 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,373 | 465 | #366 |
| 1959 | — | — | 458 | #367 |
| 1958 | — | — | 422 | #379 |
| 1957 | — | — | 495 | #341 |
| 1956 | 6 | #5,938 | 510 | #328 |
| 1955 | — | — | 510 | #326 |
| 1954 | — | — | 509 | #318 |
| 1953 | — | — | 534 | #309 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,549 | 591 | #288 |
| 1951 | — | — | 540 | #297 |
| 1950 | 5 | #6,091 | 578 | #274 |
| 1949 | — | — | 621 | #261 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,201 | 558 | #285 |
| 1947 | — | — | 602 | #278 |
| 1946 | — | — | 577 | #262 |
| 1945 | — | — | 537 | #250 |
| 1944 | — | — | 522 | #257 |
| 1943 | — | — | 609 | #240 |
| 1942 | — | — | 640 | #225 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,406 | 577 | #223 |
| 1940 | — | — | 566 | #221 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,917 | 565 | #215 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,839 | 645 | #198 |
| 1937 | — | — | 554 | #214 |
| 1936 | — | — | 586 | #206 |
| 1935 | — | — | 542 | #222 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,442 | 596 | #208 |
| 1933 | — | — | 627 | #193 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,558 | 654 | #196 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,487 | 675 | #193 |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,051 | 720 | #192 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,134 | 684 | #199 |
| 1928 | 7 | #4,185 | 741 | #192 |
| 1927 | 13 | #2,695 | 778 | #185 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,292 | 778 | #184 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,418 | 804 | #180 |
| 1924 | — | — | 813 | #177 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,961 | 847 | #169 |
| 1922 | — | — | 902 | #167 |
| 1921 | — | — | 899 | #163 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,740 | 867 | #160 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,539 | 809 | #168 |
| 1918 | — | — | 790 | #171 |
| 1917 | — | — | 755 | #169 |
| 1916 | — | — | 716 | #171 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,946 | 651 | #175 |
| 1914 | — | — | 545 | #162 |
| 1913 | — | — | 405 | #170 |
| 1912 | — | — | 291 | #198 |
| 1911 | — | — | 167 | #186 |
| 1910 | — | — | 146 | #186 |
| 1909 | — | — | 98 | #220 |
| 1908 | — | — | 101 | #202 |
| 1907 | — | — | 83 | #222 |
| 1906 | — | — | 85 | #211 |
| 1905 | — | — | 71 | #233 |
| 1904 | — | — | 60 | #246 |
| 1903 | — | — | 59 | #238 |
| 1902 | — | — | 50 | #266 |
| 1901 | — | — | 52 | #241 |
| 1900 | — | — | 63 | #258 |
| 1899 | — | — | 37 | #288 |
| 1898 | — | — | 46 | #265 |
| 1897 | — | — | 40 | #287 |
| 1896 | — | — | 40 | #295 |
| 1895 | — | — | 35 | #309 |
| 1894 | — | — | 30 | #331 |
| 1893 | — | — | 32 | #311 |
| 1892 | — | — | 43 | #278 |
| 1891 | — | — | 28 | #324 |
| 1890 | — | — | 28 | #334 |
| 1889 | — | — | 25 | #359 |
| 1888 | — | — | 29 | #348 |
| 1887 | — | — | 19 | #391 |
| 1886 | — | — | 17 | #450 |
| 1885 | — | — | 24 | #363 |
| 1884 | — | — | 26 | #351 |
| 1883 | — | — | 38 | #272 |
| 1882 | — | — | 20 | #414 |
| 1881 | — | — | 29 | #306 |
| 1880 | — | — | 29 | #319 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).