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Wilkes: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,459 in 1923.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,459 in 1923; #5,032 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wilkes in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,032 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1923, at #3,459.
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Wilkes: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,459 in 1923 · most boys in one year: 30 (2018).
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Wilkes, making it the 5,032nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 610 places from #4,422 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 24 boys named Wilkes in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,459, reached in 1923. The most boys given the name in a single year was 30, in 2018. For comparison, it was #9,513 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wilkes in 27 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 6 babies. In all, 318 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 125 babies named Wilkes.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 191 US boys were named Wilkes; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 30. In 2025 that was about 1 in 85,404 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 20 | #5,032 |
| 2024 | — | — | 24 | #4,422 |
| 2023 | — | — | 20 | #5,054 |
| 2022 | — | — | 17 | #5,617 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,769 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,271 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,330 |
| 2018 | — | — | 30 | #3,701 |
| 2017 | — | — | 11 | #7,516 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,780 |
| 2015 | — | — | 8 | #9,513 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #7,029 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,617 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #8,117 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,980 |
| 2009 | — | — | 6 | #12,410 |
| 2008 | — | — | 10 | #8,291 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,611 |
| 1977 | — | — | 5 | #6,836 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,386 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,725 |
| 1941 | — | — | 5 | #3,989 |
| 1923 | — | — | 8 | #3,459 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,947 |
| 1921 | — | — | 8 | #3,511 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,152 |
| 1916 | — | — | 6 | #3,883 |
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).