Wilburn
Wilburn was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 10,339 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,330 Americans named Wilburn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 59 and 81.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wilburn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wilburn mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wilburn is “a male given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wilburn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #14,219, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
317 babies in 1926, the peak
Wilburn peaked in 1926, when 317 boys were given it, #318 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #14,219 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,471 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #11,287 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,613 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,545 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,813 | under 0.01 |
| 1997 | 6 | #9,219 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 9 | #6,383 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,762 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 5 | #10,107 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (123)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | 10 | #5,638 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 13 | #4,464 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 6 | #8,074 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 15 | #3,797 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,147 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 8 | #5,431 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 17 | #3,001 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 14 | #3,393 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 14 | #3,265 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,130 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 6 | #6,365 | under 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #2,775 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 27 | #2,055 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 24 | #2,153 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 23 | #2,132 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 18 | #2,553 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 34 | #1,605 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 22 | #2,129 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 32 | #1,580 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,311 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 33 | #1,506 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 41 | #1,329 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 32 | #1,520 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 39 | #1,279 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,067 | 0.03 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,070 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 50 | #1,041 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 53 | #1,018 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 68 | #927 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,017 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 62 | #970 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 66 | #946 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 55 | #1,043 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 68 | #937 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 70 | #905 | 0.03 |
| 1957 | 68 | #923 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 83 | #820 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 97 | #743 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 88 | #760 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 79 | #811 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 100 | #701 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 79 | #796 | 0.04 |
| 1950 | 84 | #753 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 111 | #654 | 0.06 |
| 1948 | 145 | #555 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 139 | #575 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 134 | #552 | 0.08 |
| 1945 | 113 | #571 | 0.08 |
| 1944 | 144 | #506 | 0.11 |
| 1943 | 149 | #507 | 0.10 |
| 1942 | 147 | #505 | 0.11 |
| 1941 | 168 | #457 | 0.14 |
| 1940 | 184 | #431 | 0.16 |
| 1939 | 189 | #416 | 0.17 |
| 1938 | 214 | #387 | 0.19 |
| 1937 | 179 | #424 | 0.17 |
| 1936 | 191 | #398 | 0.18 |
| 1935 | 195 | #392 | 0.19 |
| 1934 | 229 | #359 | 0.22 |
| 1933 | 206 | #380 | 0.21 |
| 1932 | 220 | #378 | 0.21 |
| 1931 | 244 | #357 | 0.23 |
| 1930 | 254 | #362 | 0.23 |
| 1929 | 232 | #377 | 0.22 |
| 1928 | 258 | #361 | 0.23 |
| 1927 | 268 | #358 | 0.24 |
| 1926 | 317 | #318 | 0.29 |
| 1925 | 280 | #354 | 0.25 |
| 1924 | 284 | #350 | 0.25 |
| 1923 | 302 | #337 | 0.28 |
| 1922 | 247 | #383 | 0.23 |
| 1921 | 304 | #339 | 0.28 |
| 1920 | 269 | #367 | 0.25 |
| 1919 | 274 | #342 | 0.28 |
| 1918 | 265 | #357 | 0.26 |
| 1917 | 227 | #375 | 0.25 |
| 1916 | 226 | #360 | 0.25 |
| 1915 | 196 | #384 | 0.23 |
| 1914 | 133 | #414 | 0.20 |
| 1913 | 116 | #401 | 0.23 |
| 1912 | 89 | #415 | 0.21 |
| 1911 | 49 | #415 | 0.22 |
| 1910 | 43 | #414 | 0.22 |
| 1909 | 27 | #504 | 0.16 |
| 1908 | 30 | #451 | 0.19 |
| 1907 | 27 | #456 | 0.18 |
| 1906 | 20 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1905 | 27 | #420 | 0.20 |
| 1904 | 17 | #565 | 0.13 |
| 1903 | 21 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1902 | 19 | #506 | 0.15 |
| 1901 | 13 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1900 | 23 | #489 | 0.15 |
| 1899 | 13 | #580 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 16 | #542 | 0.13 |
| 1897 | 15 | #554 | 0.13 |
| 1896 | 14 | #590 | 0.12 |
| 1895 | 9 | #792 | 0.08 |
| 1894 | 11 | #666 | 0.10 |
| 1893 | 15 | #508 | 0.13 |
| 1892 | 11 | #685 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 12 | #563 | 0.12 |
| 1890 | 17 | #457 | 0.15 |
| 1889 | 11 | #625 | 0.10 |
| 1888 | 17 | #482 | 0.14 |
| 1887 | 12 | #542 | 0.12 |
| 1886 | 11 | #602 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 13 | #545 | 0.12 |
| 1884 | 13 | #545 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 11 | #595 | 0.11 |
| 1882 | 21 | #398 | 0.18 |
| 1881 | 14 | #485 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 16 | #464 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilburn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilburn has been given almost only to boys: 15 girls in 123 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wilburn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilburn, and how old are they?
2,330 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 23% of the 10,339 Americans ever recorded as Wilburn. The median Wilburn alive today is 71 years old; half are between 59 and 81.
The 2020 Census counted 2,790 people named Wilburn (27 women and girls, 2,763 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,104 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 588 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,050 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 494 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 37 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Wilburn born?
The states with the most babies named Wilburn are Texas, Alabama and Tennessee, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Alabama and Tennessee are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 1,659 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Alabama | 874 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Tennessee | 803 | not ranked | 3.3× |
| Georgia | 693 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Arkansas | 625 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Kentucky | 589 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Oklahoma | 537 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| Missouri | 406 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| North Carolina | 367 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Mississippi | 353 | not ranked | 1.8× |
Where Wilburn is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wilburn is most over-represented in Arkansas: since 1910 it was given 3.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Wilburn with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 11,313 babies since 1880, Wilburn is the most given (91% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wilburn
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Wilburn and names like it
- Compare Wilburn and WilbernBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWilburn peaked in 1926.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wilburn since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Wilburn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wilburn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.