Meaning not yet researched.
Wilford: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 9 in 2025. Its best rank was #333 in 1911.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #333 in 1911; #8,872 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wilford in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,872 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1911, at #333.
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Wilford: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 9 boys in 2025. Peak: #333 in 1911 · most boys in one year: 276 (1926).
In 2025, 9 US boys were named Wilford, making it the 8,872nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 5,293 places from #14,165 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 5 boys named Wilford in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #333, reached in 1911. The most boys given the name in a single year was 276, in 1926. For comparison, it was #8,005 in 2015 and #641 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wilford in 143 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 18 babies. In all, 10,447 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 2,497 babies named Wilford.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 62 US boys were named Wilford; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 10. In 2025 that was about 1 in 189,786 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Welford, Wilferd and Willford 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: Welford (487), Wilferd (481), Willford (146).
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 Wilford 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 | — | — | 9 | #8,872 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #14,165 |
| 2023 | — | — | 10 | #8,224 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,781 |
| 2020 | — | — | 7 | #10,549 |
| 2018 | — | — | 6 | #12,069 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #8,109 |
| 2016 | — | — | 8 | #9,613 |
| 2015 | — | — | 10 | #8,005 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,526 |
| 2013 | — | — | 9 | #8,744 |
| 2012 | — | — | 7 | #10,710 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #8,042 |
| 2010 | — | — | 15 | #6,020 |
| 2008 | — | — | 8 | #9,827 |
| 2007 | — | — | 5 | #14,302 |
| 2006 | — | — | 5 | #13,939 |
| 2005 | — | — | 9 | #8,267 |
| 2004 | — | — | 8 | #8,887 |
| 2003 | — | — | 5 | #12,690 |
| 2002 | — | — | 5 | #12,424 |
| 2001 | — | — | 13 | #5,656 |
| 2000 | — | — | 14 | #5,289 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,336 |
| 1998 | — | — | 8 | #7,528 |
| 1997 | — | — | 10 | #6,084 |
| 1996 | — | — | 9 | #6,482 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,502 |
| 1994 | — | — | 7 | #7,744 |
| 1993 | — | — | 15 | #4,215 |
| 1992 | — | — | 14 | #4,317 |
| 1991 | — | — | 18 | #3,451 |
| 1990 | — | — | 15 | #3,965 |
| 1989 | — | — | 25 | #2,612 |
| 1988 | — | — | 20 | #2,857 |
| 1987 | — | — | 18 | #2,940 |
| 1986 | — | — | 22 | #2,508 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #4,041 |
| 1984 | — | — | 26 | #2,094 |
| 1983 | — | — | 24 | #2,205 |
| 1982 | — | — | 37 | #1,651 |
| 1981 | — | — | 20 | #2,494 |
| 1980 | — | — | 25 | #2,160 |
| 1979 | — | — | 34 | #1,709 |
| 1978 | — | — | 32 | #1,717 |
| 1977 | — | — | 37 | #1,545 |
| 1976 | — | — | 37 | #1,501 |
| 1975 | — | — | 43 | #1,344 |
| 1974 | — | — | 44 | #1,288 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,779 |
| 1972 | — | — | 48 | #1,195 |
| 1971 | — | — | 37 | #1,414 |
| 1970 | — | — | 52 | #1,157 |
| 1969 | — | — | 51 | #1,096 |
| 1968 | — | — | 63 | #919 |
| 1967 | — | — | 44 | #1,130 |
| 1966 | — | — | 50 | #1,042 |
| 1965 | — | — | 58 | #975 |
| 1964 | — | — | 63 | #965 |
| 1963 | — | — | 64 | #946 |
| 1962 | — | — | 66 | #938 |
| 1961 | — | — | 69 | #927 |
| 1960 | — | — | 70 | #910 |
| 1959 | — | — | 80 | #853 |
| 1958 | — | — | 95 | #766 |
| 1957 | — | — | 94 | #779 |
| 1956 | — | — | 100 | #736 |
| 1955 | — | — | 116 | #684 |
| 1954 | — | — | 109 | #693 |
| 1953 | — | — | 115 | #664 |
| 1952 | — | — | 112 | #657 |
| 1951 | — | — | 132 | #617 |
| 1950 | — | — | 118 | #641 |
| 1949 | — | — | 132 | #596 |
| 1948 | — | — | 128 | #597 |
| 1947 | — | — | 129 | #599 |
| 1946 | — | — | 125 | #575 |
| 1945 | — | — | 128 | #529 |
| 1944 | — | — | 144 | #507 |
| 1943 | — | — | 144 | #523 |
| 1942 | — | — | 151 | #499 |
| 1941 | — | — | 122 | #534 |
| 1940 | — | — | 143 | #482 |
| 1939 | — | — | 145 | #473 |
| 1938 | — | — | 150 | #474 |
| 1937 | — | — | 164 | #440 |
| 1936 | — | — | 158 | #449 |
| 1935 | — | — | 153 | #460 |
| 1934 | — | — | 193 | #397 |
| 1933 | — | — | 139 | #478 |
| 1932 | — | — | 169 | #432 |
| 1931 | — | — | 208 | #391 |
| 1930 | — | — | 210 | #400 |
| 1929 | — | — | 215 | #395 |
| 1928 | — | — | 249 | #371 |
| 1927 | — | — | 232 | #392 |
| 1926 | — | — | 276 | #349 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,748 | 252 | #375 |
| 1924 | — | — | 257 | #377 |
| 1923 | — | — | 223 | #401 |
| 1922 | — | — | 268 | #366 |
| 1921 | — | — | 271 | #368 |
| 1920 | — | — | 249 | #378 |
| 1919 | — | — | 238 | #376 |
| 1918 | — | — | 271 | #353 |
| 1917 | — | — | 232 | #366 |
| 1916 | — | — | 225 | #363 |
| 1915 | — | — | 240 | #345 |
| 1914 | — | — | 169 | #364 |
| 1913 | — | — | 123 | #380 |
| 1912 | — | — | 92 | #403 |
| 1911 | — | — | 69 | #333 |
| 1910 | — | — | 39 | #446 |
| 1909 | — | — | 31 | #461 |
| 1908 | — | — | 38 | #382 |
| 1907 | — | — | 31 | #416 |
| 1906 | — | — | 29 | #410 |
| 1905 | — | — | 25 | #451 |
| 1904 | — | — | 18 | #537 |
| 1903 | — | — | 18 | #525 |
| 1902 | — | — | 17 | #534 |
| 1901 | — | — | 15 | #535 |
| 1900 | — | — | 24 | #476 |
| 1899 | — | — | 11 | #660 |
| 1898 | — | — | 15 | #572 |
| 1897 | — | — | 22 | #410 |
| 1896 | — | — | 18 | #499 |
| 1895 | — | — | 18 | #489 |
| 1894 | — | — | 28 | #348 |
| 1893 | — | — | 28 | #339 |
| 1892 | — | — | 15 | #545 |
| 1891 | — | — | 20 | #396 |
| 1890 | — | — | 16 | #488 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #626 |
| 1888 | — | — | 17 | #483 |
| 1887 | — | — | 13 | #514 |
| 1886 | — | — | 12 | #575 |
| 1885 | — | — | 20 | #409 |
| 1884 | — | — | 16 | #487 |
| 1883 | — | — | 20 | #401 |
| 1882 | — | — | 25 | #364 |
| 1881 | — | — | 18 | #415 |
| 1880 | — | — | 18 | #424 |
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).