In 2025, 6,480 US boys were named Wyatt, making it the 38th most common boys’ name of the year, the same rank as in 2024. That is 125 fewer than the 6,605 boys named Wyatt in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #25, reached in 2017. That year also had the most boys given the name: 9,727. For comparison, it was #34 in 2015 and #988 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wyatt in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 15 babies with the name. In all, 209,814 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 88,258 babies named Wyatt.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 80,141 US boys were named Wyatt; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 9,727. In 2025 that was about 1 in 264 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wyatt ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #5 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 50 states (counting DC). Rarer spellings such as Wyeth, Wyatte and Wyett are summarised on this page.