Meaning not yet researched.
Wilton: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #422 in 1924.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #422 in 1924; #6,118 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wilton in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,118 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1924, at #422.
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Wilton: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 boys in 2025. Peak: #422 in 1924 · most boys in one year: 208 (1924).
In 2025, 15 US boys were named Wilton, making it the 6,118th most common boys’ name of the year, down 474 places from #5,644 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 17 boys named Wilton in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #422, reached in 1924. That year also had the most boys given the name: 208. For comparison, it was #4,172 in 2015 and #657 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wilton in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 8,694 US babies have been given the name, 0.5% of them girls and 99.5% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1920s, with 1,819 babies named Wilton.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 162 US boys were named Wilton; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 113,872 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Welton (2,594 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Wilton 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 | — | — | 15 | #6,118 |
| 2024 | — | — | 17 | #5,644 |
| 2023 | — | — | 19 | #5,243 |
| 2022 | — | — | 19 | #5,204 |
| 2021 | — | — | 20 | #4,929 |
| 2020 | — | — | 12 | #7,016 |
| 2019 | — | — | 14 | #6,390 |
| 2018 | — | — | 11 | #7,593 |
| 2017 | — | — | 18 | #5,285 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,541 |
| 2015 | — | — | 25 | #4,172 |
| 2014 | — | — | 15 | #5,984 |
| 2013 | — | — | 20 | #4,794 |
| 2012 | — | — | 23 | #4,382 |
| 2011 | — | — | 17 | #5,420 |
| 2010 | — | — | 16 | #5,722 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,314 |
| 2008 | — | — | 19 | #5,052 |
| 2007 | — | — | 31 | #3,508 |
| 2006 | — | — | 23 | #4,216 |
| 2005 | — | — | 26 | #3,704 |
| 2004 | — | — | 25 | #3,732 |
| 2003 | — | — | 27 | #3,440 |
| 2002 | — | — | 25 | #3,551 |
| 2001 | — | — | 31 | #2,985 |
| 2000 | — | — | 20 | #4,061 |
| 1999 | — | — | 33 | #2,663 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,193 |
| 1997 | — | — | 24 | #3,158 |
| 1996 | — | — | 28 | #2,744 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,188 |
| 1994 | — | — | 28 | #2,684 |
| 1993 | — | — | 45 | #1,874 |
| 1992 | — | — | 31 | #2,407 |
| 1991 | — | — | 28 | #2,540 |
| 1990 | — | — | 39 | #1,967 |
| 1989 | — | — | 39 | #1,918 |
| 1988 | — | — | 19 | #2,956 |
| 1987 | — | — | 26 | #2,270 |
| 1986 | — | — | 28 | #2,093 |
| 1985 | — | — | 35 | #1,760 |
| 1984 | — | — | 30 | #1,883 |
| 1983 | — | — | 44 | #1,447 |
| 1982 | — | — | 33 | #1,772 |
| 1981 | — | — | 33 | #1,765 |
| 1980 | — | — | 42 | #1,495 |
| 1979 | — | — | 44 | #1,420 |
| 1978 | — | — | 34 | #1,650 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,606 |
| 1976 | — | — | 32 | #1,675 |
| 1975 | — | — | 38 | #1,454 |
| 1974 | — | — | 36 | #1,470 |
| 1973 | — | — | 50 | #1,175 |
| 1972 | — | — | 45 | #1,248 |
| 1971 | — | — | 52 | #1,149 |
| 1970 | — | — | 50 | #1,177 |
| 1969 | — | — | 57 | #1,026 |
| 1968 | — | — | 43 | #1,163 |
| 1967 | — | — | 44 | #1,131 |
| 1966 | — | — | 64 | #915 |
| 1965 | — | — | 53 | #1,019 |
| 1964 | — | — | 63 | #966 |
| 1963 | — | — | 59 | #993 |
| 1962 | — | — | 68 | #925 |
| 1961 | — | — | 56 | #1,051 |
| 1960 | — | — | 80 | #851 |
| 1959 | — | — | 84 | #833 |
| 1958 | — | — | 82 | #833 |
| 1957 | — | — | 74 | #883 |
| 1956 | — | — | 85 | #817 |
| 1955 | — | — | 90 | #771 |
| 1954 | — | — | 81 | #806 |
| 1953 | — | — | 85 | #773 |
| 1952 | — | — | 114 | #649 |
| 1951 | — | — | 112 | #664 |
| 1950 | — | — | 114 | #657 |
| 1949 | — | — | 95 | #706 |
| 1948 | — | — | 114 | #635 |
| 1947 | — | — | 103 | #684 |
| 1946 | — | — | 97 | #659 |
| 1945 | — | — | 90 | #639 |
| 1944 | — | — | 116 | #572 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,357 | 130 | #556 |
| 1942 | — | — | 133 | #530 |
| 1941 | — | — | 115 | #563 |
| 1940 | — | — | 107 | #575 |
| 1939 | — | — | 100 | #573 |
| 1938 | — | — | 105 | #574 |
| 1937 | — | — | 124 | #520 |
| 1936 | — | — | 141 | #475 |
| 1935 | — | — | 120 | #529 |
| 1934 | — | — | 122 | #534 |
| 1933 | — | — | 144 | #466 |
| 1932 | — | — | 129 | #509 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,960 | 135 | #496 |
| 1930 | — | — | 145 | #497 |
| 1929 | — | — | 163 | #463 |
| 1928 | — | — | 173 | #462 |
| 1927 | — | — | 185 | #450 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,599 | 161 | #475 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,754 | 179 | #450 |
| 1924 | — | — | 208 | #422 |
| 1923 | — | — | 189 | #444 |
| 1922 | — | — | 194 | #435 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,662 | 184 | #456 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,961 | 158 | #484 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,802 | 185 | #432 |
| 1918 | — | — | 155 | #478 |
| 1917 | — | — | 166 | #440 |
| 1916 | — | — | 153 | #460 |
| 1915 | — | — | 147 | #453 |
| 1914 | — | — | 104 | #477 |
| 1913 | — | — | 95 | #441 |
| 1912 | — | — | 49 | #583 |
| 1911 | — | — | 29 | #576 |
| 1910 | — | — | 21 | #653 |
| 1909 | — | — | 21 | #589 |
| 1908 | — | — | 20 | #583 |
| 1907 | — | — | 21 | #538 |
| 1906 | — | — | 19 | #546 |
| 1905 | — | — | 23 | #476 |
| 1904 | — | — | 23 | #451 |
| 1903 | — | — | 18 | #526 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #792 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #1,056 |
| 1900 | — | — | 12 | #784 |
| 1899 | — | — | 8 | #855 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #998 |
| 1897 | — | — | 8 | #851 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #898 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #794 |
| 1894 | — | — | 8 | #854 |
| 1893 | — | — | 9 | #766 |
| 1892 | — | — | 5 | #1,253 |
| 1891 | — | — | 11 | #596 |
| 1890 | — | — | 7 | #881 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #721 |
| 1887 | — | — | 6 | #915 |
| 1886 | — | — | 5 | #1,103 |
| 1885 | — | — | 8 | #764 |
| 1884 | — | — | 8 | #759 |
| 1883 | — | — | 8 | #719 |
| 1882 | — | — | 10 | #650 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #993 |
| 1880 | — | — | 7 | #808 |
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).