Wilburt
Wilburt was last recorded in 1987, when 5 babies were given it; 1,108 Americans have been recorded with it between 1903 and 1987 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wilburt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wilburt?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,104, in 1987; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1920, the peak
Wilburt peaked in 1920, when 39 boys were given it, #1,155 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 5 | #8,104 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,311 | 4.3 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,737 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,827 | 3.7 |
| 1975 | 7 | #4,788 | 4.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,176 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 6 | #5,082 | 3.8 |
| 1971 | 11 | #3,137 | 6.2 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,826 | 4.3 |
| 1969 | 5 | #5,021 | 2.8 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 8 | #3,357 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 10 | #2,774 | 5.6 |
| 1965 | 8 | #3,238 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,541 | 6.0 |
| 1963 | 14 | #2,297 | 6.9 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,617 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,891 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 22 | #1,769 | 10.3 |
| 1959 | 9 | #3,032 | 4.2 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,810 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 24 | #1,670 | 11.1 |
| 1956 | 10 | #2,790 | 4.7 |
| 1955 | 11 | #2,554 | 5.3 |
| 1954 | 21 | #1,703 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,137 | 4.1 |
| 1952 | 24 | #1,580 | 12.3 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,051 | 8.0 |
| 1950 | 21 | #1,653 | 11.7 |
| 1949 | 24 | #1,542 | 13.5 |
| 1948 | 11 | #2,435 | 6.3 |
| 1947 | 9 | #2,855 | 4.9 |
| 1946 | 18 | #1,757 | 11.1 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,127 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,887 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 18 | #1,762 | 12.6 |
| 1942 | 19 | #1,680 | 13.8 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,756 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,317 | 9.5 |
| 1939 | 14 | #1,955 | 12.6 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,814 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,086 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,460 | 21.2 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,834 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,782 | 16.5 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,642 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,506 | 22.0 |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,390 | 25.0 |
| 1930 | 25 | #1,495 | 22.8 |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,606 | 20.5 |
| 1928 | 20 | #1,757 | 18.1 |
| 1927 | 23 | #1,644 | 20.4 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,402 | 25.2 |
| 1925 | 28 | #1,422 | 25.1 |
| 1924 | 23 | #1,674 | 20.3 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,458 | 24.6 |
| 1922 | 29 | #1,394 | 26.7 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,585 | 21.8 |
| 1920 | 39 | #1,155 | 36.6 |
| 1919 | 14 | #2,263 | 14.3 |
| 1918 | 32 | #1,252 | 31.6 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,110 | 40.0 |
| 1916 | 28 | #1,298 | 31.5 |
| 1915 | 24 | #1,406 | 28.3 |
| 1914 | 15 | #1,681 | 22.9 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,804 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 11 | #1,614 | 25.6 |
| 1911 | 5 | #1,989 | 22.1 |
| 1910 | 7 | #1,416 | 36.0 |
| 1905 | 5 | #1,416 | 37.8 |
| 1903 | 5 | #1,301 | 41.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilburt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilburt has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wilburt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilburt, and how old are they?
An estimated 321 Americans named Wilburt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (29% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 61 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 387 people named Wilburt (0 women and girls, 387 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 404 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 41,301 babies since 1880, Wilburt is the second most given (2.7% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Wilburt (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Wilburt
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 Wilburt and names like it
- Compare Wilburt and WilbertBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWilburt peaked in 1920.
- North Carolina’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wilburt since 1910.
- The top names of 1920The year the most babies were named Wilburt.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wilburt alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.