Wylee is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Wiley, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Wylee: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,858 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,858 in 2013; #3,943 in 2025. About 68% of babies named Wylee in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,943 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #3,858.
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Wylee: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,858 in 2013 · most boys in one year: 29 (2024).
In 2025, 28 US boys were named Wylee, making it the 3,943rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 53 places from #3,890 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 29 boys named Wylee in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,858, reached in 2013. The most boys given the name in a single year was 29, in 2024. For comparison, it was #5,978 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Wylee, making it the 8,333rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 757 places from #7,576 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 15 girls named Wylee in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #7,215, reached in 2016. That year also had the most girls given the name: 17. For comparison, it was #9,458 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wylee in 31 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 5 babies. In all, 640 US babies have been given the name, 28% of them girls and 72% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 267 babies named Wylee.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 219 US boys were named Wylee; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wiley (18,794 babies since 1880) and Wylie (6,865 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 Wylee 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 | 13 | #8,333 | 28 | #3,943 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,576 | 29 | #3,890 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,571 | 18 | #5,457 |
| 2022 | 14 | #8,007 | 20 | #5,006 |
| 2021 | 14 | #8,005 | 19 | #5,100 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,087 | 18 | #5,217 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,698 | 14 | #6,393 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,406 | 25 | #4,217 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,316 | 22 | #4,585 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,215 | 26 | #4,090 |
| 2015 | 12 | #9,458 | 15 | #5,978 |
| 2014 | — | — | 18 | #5,241 |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,145 | 27 | #3,858 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,900 | 16 | #5,710 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,447 | 12 | #6,982 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,564 |
| 2009 | — | — | 11 | #7,670 |
| 2008 | — | — | 16 | #5,757 |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,432 | 11 | #7,562 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,047 | 13 | #6,445 |
| 2005 | — | — | 17 | #5,028 |
| 2004 | — | — | 15 | #5,481 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,611 |
| 2002 | — | — | 10 | #7,026 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,882 | 5 | #12,250 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,553 | 6 | #10,310 |
| 1998 | — | — | 5 | #11,275 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,278 |
| 1995 | — | — | 5 | #10,290 |
| 1990 | — | — | 6 | #8,087 |
| 1979 | — | — | 5 | #7,055 |
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).