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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Wilder” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wilder” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Wilder” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Wilder” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Wilder” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Wilder” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Wilder” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wilder” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1914 9 0.000006354 9 -100%
1915 9 0.000004912 9 -100%
1916 6 0.000003102 6 -100%
1917 8 0.000003987 8 -100%
1918 15 0.000006909 5 10 -33%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 6 0.000002652 6 -100%
1921 12 0.00000514 12 -100%
1922 8 0.000003495 8 -100%
1923 13 0.000005646 6 7 -8%
1924 7 0.000002939 7 -100%
1925 12 0.000005143 5 7 -17%
1926 6 0.000002613 6 -100%
1927 6 0.000002587 6 -100%
1928 13 0.00000575 5 8 -23%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 -100%
1931 6 0.000002851 6 -100%
1936 9 0.000004332 9 -100%
1937 11 0.000005163 11 -100%
1942 7 0.000002562 7 -100%
1946 8 0.000002504 8 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 6 0.000001629 6 -100%
1952 5 0.000001316 5 -100%
1969 6 0.000001726 6 -100%
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1980 5 0.000001452 5 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 8 0.000002241 8 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1989 13 0.000003382 13 -100%
1990 14 0.000003542 14 -100%
1991 10 0.000002567 10 -100%
1992 14 0.000003645 14 -100%
1993 20 0.000005305 20 -100%
1994 11 0.000002959 11 -100%
1995 13 0.00000355 13 -100%
1996 16 0.000004387 16 -100%
1997 13 0.000003585 13 -100%
1998 20 0.000005437 20 -100%
1999 24 0.000006497 24 -100%
2000 19 0.000005027 19 -100%
2001 28 0.00000748 28 -100%
2002 25 0.000006688 25 -100%
2003 26 0.000006838 26 -100%
2004 45 0.000011777 45 -100%
2005 33 0.000008583 33 -100%
2006 37 0.000009352 37 -100%
2007 56 0.000014008 56 -100%
2008 66 0.000016791 7 59 -79%
2009 43 0.000011256 5 38 -77%
2010 70 0.000018941 5 65 -86%
2011 62 0.00001695 62 -100%
2012 93 0.000025428 93 -100%
2013 132 0.000036207 5 127 -92%
2014 144 0.000038852 10 134 -86%
2015 237 0.000064038 22 215 -81%
2016 376 0.000102489 38 338 -80%
2017 510 0.00014261 33 477 -87%
2018 593 0.000168663 53 540 -82%
2019 648 0.000186693 47 601 -85%
2020 767 0.000229601 72 695 -81%
2021 978 0.00028867 88 890 -82%
2022 955 0.000282283 89 866 -81%
2023 806 0.000243417 51 755 -87%
2024 879 0.000264083 49 830 -89%

Explore other names

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  5. Wilden
  6. Wilder (this page)
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  8. Wildred
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