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Wylder: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 407 in 2025. Its best rank was #671 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. About 91% of babies named Wylder in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#671 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Wylder: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 407 boys in 2025. Peak: #671 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 407 (2025).
In 2025, 407 US boys were named Wylder, making it the 671st most common boys’ name of the year, up 8 places from #679 in 2024. That is 4 more than the 403 boys named Wylder in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #671, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 407. For comparison, it was #2,639 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wylder in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2005 with 6 babies. In all, 2,760 US babies have been given the name, 8.9% of them girls and 91% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,021 babies named Wylder.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,291 US boys were named Wylder; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 407. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,197 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wylder ranked highest in West Virginia in 2025, at #199 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Wilder (8,835 babies since 1880).
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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 Wylder 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 17 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 10 | #199 | — |
| Arkansas | 14 | #271 | — |
| Tennessee | 29 | #309 | — |
| Idaho | 8 | #330 | — |
| Mississippi | 10 | #332 | — |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #373 | — |
| Iowa | 9 | #396 | — |
| Nebraska | 6 | #429 | — |
| Indiana | 17 | #430 | — |
| Kentucky | 11 | #448 | — |
| Oklahoma | 10 | #462 | — |
| Alabama | 10 | #524 | — |
| South Carolina | 9 | #550 | — |
| Missouri | 11 | #556 | — |
| North Carolina | 17 | #590 | — |
| Oregon | 6 | #601 | — |
| Colorado | 9 | #623 | — |
| Michigan | 13 | #639 | — |
| Ohio | 14 | #673 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #691 | — |
| Georgia | 14 | #706 | — |
| Minnesota | 7 | #714 | — |
| Washington | 9 | #734 | — |
| Louisiana | 6 | #768 | — |
| Utah | 5 | #807 | — |
| Arizona | 7 | #839 | — |
| Maryland | 5 | #914 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #930 | — |
| Texas | 27 | #934 | — |
| Virginia | 7 | #967 | — |
| Florida | 14 | #1,006 | — |
| California | 20 | #1,078 | #2,260 |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | #1,090 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,565 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 41 | #3,707 | 407 | #671 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,659 | 403 | #679 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,863 | 370 | #718 |
| 2022 | 36 | #4,104 | 283 | #856 |
| 2021 | 23 | #5,564 | 229 | #975 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,548 | 156 | #1,214 |
| 2019 | 21 | #5,975 | 133 | #1,353 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,087 | 128 | #1,384 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,268 | 109 | #1,523 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,851 | 73 | #1,989 |
| 2015 | 9 | #11,796 | 47 | #2,639 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,887 |
| 2013 | — | — | 36 | #3,118 |
| 2012 | — | — | 24 | #4,243 |
| 2011 | — | — | 21 | #4,649 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,563 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,317 |
| 2008 | — | — | 13 | #6,745 |
| 2007 | — | — | 12 | #7,063 |
| 2006 | — | — | 7 | #10,617 |
| 2005 | — | — | 6 | #11,419 |
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).