Meaning not yet researched.
Wisdom: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 160 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,251 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 72% of babies named Wisdom in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,251 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Wisdom: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 160 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,251 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 160 (2025).
In 2025, 160 US boys were named Wisdom, making it the 1,251st most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,422 places from #2,673 in 2024. That is 110 more than the 50 boys named Wisdom in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,251, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 160. For comparison, it was #2,682 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 61 US girls were named Wisdom, making it the 2,819th most common girls’ name of the year, up 258 places from #3,077 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 53 girls named Wisdom in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,819, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 61. For comparison, it was #3,985 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wisdom in 36 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1988 with 7 babies. In all, 2,189 US babies have been given the name, 48% of them girls and 52% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 793 babies named Wisdom.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 643 US boys were named Wisdom; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 160. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,675 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wisdom ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #564 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Wysdom, Wizdom and Wyzdom are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wysdom (97), Wizdom (66), Wyzdom (11).
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 Wisdom 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 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 19 | #564 | — |
| South Carolina | 8 | #607 | — |
| Florida | 23 | #702 | #1,673 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #867 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #966 | — |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,106 | — |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,182 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,257 | — |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,470 | — |
| California | 10 | #1,680 | — |
| Texas | 9 | #1,902 | — |
| New York | 5 | #2,026 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,819 | 160 | #1,251 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,077 | 50 | #2,673 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,222 | 71 | #2,095 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,927 | 75 | #2,037 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,085 | 58 | #2,368 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,543 | 41 | #2,920 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,549 | 54 | #2,486 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,558 | 52 | #2,505 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,301 | 38 | #3,120 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,584 | 44 | #2,777 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,985 | 46 | #2,682 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,775 | 31 | #3,529 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,417 | 37 | #3,057 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,290 | 40 | #2,951 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,675 | 41 | #2,903 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,300 | 31 | #3,524 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,267 | 26 | #4,026 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,642 | 31 | #3,559 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,125 | 22 | #4,485 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,226 | 29 | #3,598 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,110 | 23 | #4,059 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,382 | 17 | #4,999 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,410 | 15 | #5,255 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,083 | 11 | #6,512 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,205 | 14 | #5,381 |
| 2000 | 13 | #8,019 | 16 | #4,779 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,213 | 15 | #4,753 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,488 | 10 | #6,298 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,784 | 8 | #7,260 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,567 | 9 | #6,486 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,486 | 6 | #8,836 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,696 | — | — |
| 1991 | — | — | 5 | #9,605 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #7,155 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,883 |
| 1988 | — | — | 7 | #6,404 |
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).