Meaning not yet researched.
Wylie: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 175 in 2025. Its best rank was #460 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #460 in 1887; #1,182 in 2025. About 73% of babies named Wylie in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,182 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #460.
Hover, tap or use the arrow keys for any year. Years with fewer than five babies of a sex are not published by SSA and show as zero.
Wylie: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 175 boys in 2025. Peak: #460 in 1887 · most boys in one year: 175 (2025).
In 2025, 175 US boys were named Wylie, making it the 1,182nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 48 places from #1,230 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 164 boys named Wylie in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #460, reached in 1887. The most boys given the name in a single year was 175, in 2025. For comparison, it was #1,951 in 2015 and #1,051 in 1950.
In 2025, 65 US girls were named Wylie, making it the 2,689th most common girls’ name of the year, up 31 places from #2,720 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 64 girls named Wylie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #2,689, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #4,846 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wylie in 144 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 12 babies. In all, 6,865 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,142 babies named Wylie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,219 US boys were named Wylie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 175. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,760 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wylie ranked highest in Montana in 2025, at #292 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Willie (596,385 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 Wylie 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montana | 5 | #292 | — |
| Oklahoma | 16 | #310 | #808 |
| Kentucky | 8 | #568 | — |
| Tennessee | 12 | #637 | — |
| South Carolina | 6 | #740 | — |
| Texas | 27 | #935 | #1,281 |
| North Carolina | 7 | #1,140 | — |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,259 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,426 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,466 | — |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,544 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,196 | #1,529 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 65 | #2,689 | 175 | #1,182 |
| 2024 | 64 | #2,720 | 164 | #1,230 |
| 2023 | 52 | #3,179 | 113 | #1,557 |
| 2022 | 56 | #2,994 | 126 | #1,446 |
| 2021 | 51 | #3,212 | 148 | #1,289 |
| 2020 | 46 | #3,395 | 82 | #1,830 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,784 | 93 | #1,712 |
| 2018 | 36 | #4,071 | 103 | #1,603 |
| 2017 | 37 | #4,064 | 117 | #1,459 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,280 | 98 | #1,639 |
| 2015 | 29 | #4,846 | 75 | #1,951 |
| 2014 | 21 | #6,197 | 88 | #1,728 |
| 2013 | 18 | #7,020 | 77 | #1,863 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,196 | 85 | #1,773 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,837 | 64 | #2,101 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,754 | 73 | #1,939 |
| 2009 | 16 | #8,037 | 69 | #2,033 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,398 | 77 | #1,896 |
| 2007 | 18 | #7,383 | 55 | #2,370 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,256 | 70 | #1,941 |
| 2005 | 11 | #10,101 | 48 | #2,432 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,727 | 46 | #2,450 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,287 | 48 | #2,266 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,450 | 46 | #2,293 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,710 | 41 | #2,425 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,847 | 45 | #2,221 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,651 | 39 | #2,344 |
| 1998 | 7 | #12,393 | 42 | #2,197 |
| 1997 | 5 | #16,084 | 29 | #2,748 |
| 1996 | — | — | 40 | #2,141 |
| 1995 | — | — | 28 | #2,680 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,564 | 21 | #3,321 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,710 | 30 | #2,506 |
| 1992 | — | — | 29 | #2,530 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,410 | 20 | #3,220 |
| 1990 | — | — | 28 | #2,485 |
| 1989 | — | — | 20 | #3,090 |
| 1988 | — | — | 30 | #2,143 |
| 1987 | — | — | 30 | #2,056 |
| 1986 | — | — | 25 | #2,286 |
| 1985 | — | — | 22 | #2,425 |
| 1984 | — | — | 29 | #1,932 |
| 1983 | — | — | 23 | #2,271 |
| 1982 | — | — | 15 | #3,100 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,267 |
| 1980 | — | — | 34 | #1,725 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,376 |
| 1978 | — | — | 26 | #1,963 |
| 1977 | — | — | 31 | #1,741 |
| 1976 | — | — | 17 | #2,598 |
| 1975 | — | — | 35 | #1,529 |
| 1974 | — | — | 23 | #1,979 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,780 |
| 1972 | — | — | 39 | #1,363 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,373 | 42 | #1,307 |
| 1970 | — | — | 32 | #1,522 |
| 1969 | — | — | 27 | #1,604 |
| 1968 | — | — | 27 | #1,543 |
| 1967 | — | — | 29 | #1,448 |
| 1966 | — | — | 44 | #1,130 |
| 1965 | — | — | 32 | #1,385 |
| 1964 | — | — | 22 | #1,728 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,278 |
| 1962 | — | — | 31 | #1,422 |
| 1961 | — | — | 37 | #1,320 |
| 1960 | — | — | 30 | #1,484 |
| 1959 | — | — | 33 | #1,385 |
| 1958 | — | — | 27 | #1,533 |
| 1957 | — | — | 36 | #1,317 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,882 | 42 | #1,192 |
| 1955 | — | — | 47 | #1,101 |
| 1954 | — | — | 32 | #1,360 |
| 1953 | — | — | 44 | #1,122 |
| 1952 | — | — | 39 | #1,194 |
| 1951 | — | — | 39 | #1,170 |
| 1950 | — | — | 46 | #1,051 |
| 1949 | — | — | 37 | #1,184 |
| 1948 | — | — | 44 | #1,078 |
| 1947 | — | — | 55 | #967 |
| 1946 | — | — | 39 | #1,123 |
| 1945 | — | — | 51 | #898 |
| 1944 | — | — | 49 | #917 |
| 1943 | — | — | 51 | #942 |
| 1942 | — | — | 48 | #969 |
| 1941 | — | — | 57 | #846 |
| 1940 | — | — | 50 | #903 |
| 1939 | — | — | 50 | #887 |
| 1938 | — | — | 54 | #851 |
| 1937 | — | — | 51 | #868 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,846 | 57 | #815 |
| 1935 | — | — | 61 | #797 |
| 1934 | — | — | 51 | #887 |
| 1933 | — | — | 38 | #1,077 |
| 1932 | — | — | 59 | #835 |
| 1931 | — | — | 51 | #909 |
| 1930 | — | — | 56 | #891 |
| 1929 | — | — | 63 | #825 |
| 1928 | — | — | 40 | #1,124 |
| 1927 | — | — | 52 | #981 |
| 1926 | — | — | 47 | #1,017 |
| 1925 | — | — | 55 | #915 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,886 | 71 | #808 |
| 1923 | — | — | 56 | #922 |
| 1922 | — | — | 53 | #976 |
| 1921 | — | — | 49 | #1,010 |
| 1920 | — | — | 63 | #864 |
| 1919 | — | — | 61 | #849 |
| 1918 | — | — | 56 | #893 |
| 1917 | — | — | 51 | #899 |
| 1916 | — | — | 50 | #891 |
| 1915 | — | — | 53 | #856 |
| 1914 | — | — | 40 | #869 |
| 1913 | — | — | 34 | #834 |
| 1912 | — | — | 25 | #917 |
| 1911 | — | — | 19 | #758 |
| 1910 | — | — | 17 | #754 |
| 1909 | — | — | 22 | #573 |
| 1908 | — | — | 19 | #612 |
| 1907 | — | — | 11 | #864 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,249 |
| 1905 | — | — | 16 | #614 |
| 1904 | — | — | 8 | #965 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #1,008 |
| 1902 | — | — | 10 | #793 |
| 1900 | — | — | 17 | #622 |
| 1898 | — | — | 14 | #610 |
| 1897 | — | — | 12 | #651 |
| 1896 | — | — | 13 | #639 |
| 1895 | — | — | 18 | #490 |
| 1894 | — | — | 14 | #566 |
| 1893 | — | — | 9 | #767 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #953 |
| 1891 | — | — | 5 | #1,127 |
| 1890 | — | — | 9 | #737 |
| 1889 | — | — | 11 | #627 |
| 1888 | — | — | 13 | #579 |
| 1887 | — | — | 15 | #460 |
| 1886 | — | — | 13 | #539 |
| 1885 | — | — | 13 | #546 |
| 1884 | — | — | 10 | #662 |
| 1883 | — | — | 10 | #643 |
| 1882 | — | — | 8 | #753 |
| 1881 | — | — | 10 | #593 |
| 1880 | — | — | 12 | #570 |
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).