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Wilder: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 743 in 2025. Its best rank was #367 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #367 in 2021; #431 in 2025. About 95% of babies named Wilder in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#431 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #367.
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Wilder: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 743 boys in 2025. Peak: #367 in 2021 · most boys in one year: 890 (2021).
In 2025, 743 US boys were named Wilder, making it the 431st most common boys’ name of the year, down 41 places from #390 in 2024. That is 93 fewer than the 836 boys named Wilder in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #367, reached in 2021. That year also had the most boys given the name: 890. For comparison, it was #965 in 2015 and #4,182 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wilder in 69 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 9 babies. In all, 8,835 US babies have been given the name, 7.2% of them girls and 93% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 5,178 babies named Wilder.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 6,742 US boys were named Wilder; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 890. In 2025 that was about 1 in 2,299 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wilder ranked highest in Vermont in 2025, at #63 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Wylder (2,760 babies since 1880).
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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.
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 Wilder in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 11 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vermont | 8 | #63 | #122 |
| South Dakota | 10 | #144 | — |
| Maine | 8 | #171 | — |
| Montana | 7 | #199 | — |
| Minnesota | 33 | #201 | — |
| New Hampshire | 7 | #205 | — |
| Iowa | 19 | #218 | — |
| Tennessee | 40 | #227 | #519 |
| Oklahoma | 20 | #250 | — |
| Kentucky | 21 | #268 | #597 |
| Arkansas | 14 | #270 | — |
| Alabama | 21 | #272 | — |
| Idaho | 10 | #281 | — |
| West Virginia | 7 | #298 | — |
| Washington | 23 | #335 | #1,097 |
| Missouri | 19 | #345 | — |
| South Carolina | 16 | #346 | — |
| Indiana | 22 | #349 | — |
| Kansas | 11 | #350 | — |
| Georgia | 34 | #356 | #1,373 |
| Massachusetts | 15 | #360 | #705 |
| Michigan | 24 | #372 | — |
| Oregon | 11 | #373 | #424 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #380 | #831 |
| Colorado | 17 | #384 | #586 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #391 | — |
| Virginia | 19 | #434 | #1,131 |
| Florida | 40 | #465 | #1,026 |
| Utah | 10 | #472 | — |
| Mississippi | 6 | #519 | — |
| Connecticut | 5 | #568 | #525 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #576 | — |
| California | 51 | #590 | #678 |
| Illinois | 16 | #605 | — |
| Ohio | 16 | #624 | — |
| Louisiana | 7 | #664 | — |
| Maryland | 7 | #696 | — |
| Arizona | 9 | #716 | — |
| New York | 19 | #764 | #1,340 |
| Texas | 35 | #788 | #1,360 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 43 | #3,572 | 743 | #431 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,275 | 836 | #390 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,221 | 755 | #422 |
| 2022 | 89 | #2,155 | 867 | #374 |
| 2021 | 88 | #2,152 | 890 | #367 |
| 2020 | 72 | #2,438 | 695 | #427 |
| 2019 | 47 | #3,385 | 601 | #485 |
| 2018 | 53 | #3,104 | 540 | #527 |
| 2017 | 33 | #4,378 | 477 | #573 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,991 | 338 | #726 |
| 2015 | 22 | #6,022 | 215 | #965 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,916 | 134 | #1,317 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,140 | 127 | #1,344 |
| 2012 | — | — | 93 | #1,667 |
| 2011 | — | — | 62 | #2,143 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,689 | 65 | #2,097 |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,067 | 38 | #3,103 |
| 2008 | 7 | #15,326 | 59 | #2,262 |
| 2007 | — | — | 56 | #2,336 |
| 2006 | — | — | 37 | #3,022 |
| 2005 | — | — | 33 | #3,170 |
| 2004 | — | — | 45 | #2,487 |
| 2003 | — | — | 26 | #3,524 |
| 2002 | — | — | 25 | #3,550 |
| 2001 | — | — | 28 | #3,225 |
| 2000 | — | — | 19 | #4,200 |
| 1999 | — | — | 24 | #3,371 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,702 |
| 1997 | — | — | 13 | #4,948 |
| 1996 | — | — | 16 | #4,180 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,784 |
| 1994 | — | — | 11 | #5,436 |
| 1993 | — | — | 20 | #3,364 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,316 |
| 1991 | — | — | 10 | #5,502 |
| 1990 | — | — | 14 | #4,162 |
| 1989 | — | — | 13 | #4,264 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #6,073 |
| 1985 | — | — | 8 | #5,131 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,291 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,211 |
| 1982 | — | — | 6 | #6,368 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #7,271 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,734 |
| 1969 | — | — | 6 | #4,398 |
| 1952 | — | — | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1951 | — | — | 6 | #3,701 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,182 |
| 1946 | — | — | 8 | #2,913 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,206 |
| 1937 | — | — | 11 | #2,329 |
| 1936 | — | — | 9 | #2,624 |
| 1931 | — | — | 6 | #3,751 |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,525 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,417 | 8 | #3,352 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,198 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,180 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,747 | 7 | #3,729 |
| 1924 | — | — | 7 | #3,859 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,952 | 7 | #3,817 |
| 1922 | — | — | 8 | #3,521 |
| 1921 | — | — | 12 | #2,625 |
| 1920 | — | — | 6 | #4,271 |
| 1919 | — | — | 5 | #4,792 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,567 | 10 | #2,872 |
| 1917 | — | — | 8 | #3,209 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,880 |
| 1915 | — | — | 9 | #2,821 |
| 1914 | — | — | 9 | #2,452 |
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).