Wilda
Wilda was last recorded in 2022, when 5 babies were given it; 12,774 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,000 Americans named Wilda and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (24% of everyone recorded); the median is 77 years old and half are between 68 and 85.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wilda by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wilda?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,610, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
411 babies in 1926, the peak
Wilda peaked in 1926, when 411 girls were given it, #327 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5 | #17,610 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,936 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 6 | #15,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,533 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 6 | #13,340 | under 0.01 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,686 | under 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,521 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,701 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 5 | #15,398 | under 0.01 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,284 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (119)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | #10,818 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,833 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,207 | under 0.01 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,516 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,298 | under 0.01 |
| 1984 | 7 | #9,126 | under 0.01 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,202 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,939 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,395 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,158 | under 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,417 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,542 | under 0.01 |
| 1977 | 10 | #6,329 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,607 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,945 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,246 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,752 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,174 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,305 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 19 | #3,432 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 23 | #2,840 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,077 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,951 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 59 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 37 | #1,973 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 53 | #1,563 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 68 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 42 | #1,786 | 0.02 |
| 1960 | 63 | #1,391 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 61 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 87 | #1,141 | 0.04 |
| 1957 | 96 | #1,065 | 0.05 |
| 1956 | 94 | #1,056 | 0.05 |
| 1955 | 90 | #1,069 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 98 | #990 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 124 | #833 | 0.07 |
| 1952 | 107 | #895 | 0.06 |
| 1951 | 118 | #827 | 0.07 |
| 1950 | 118 | #801 | 0.07 |
| 1949 | 152 | #678 | 0.09 |
| 1948 | 143 | #698 | 0.08 |
| 1947 | 147 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1946 | 156 | #631 | 0.10 |
| 1945 | 144 | #601 | 0.11 |
| 1944 | 177 | #543 | 0.13 |
| 1943 | 182 | #562 | 0.13 |
| 1942 | 208 | #516 | 0.15 |
| 1941 | 185 | #510 | 0.15 |
| 1940 | 205 | #469 | 0.18 |
| 1939 | 216 | #454 | 0.20 |
| 1938 | 210 | #465 | 0.19 |
| 1937 | 230 | #428 | 0.22 |
| 1936 | 240 | #417 | 0.23 |
| 1935 | 257 | #403 | 0.25 |
| 1934 | 255 | #412 | 0.24 |
| 1933 | 288 | #380 | 0.29 |
| 1932 | 307 | #364 | 0.29 |
| 1931 | 276 | #394 | 0.26 |
| 1930 | 340 | #365 | 0.30 |
| 1929 | 348 | #349 | 0.31 |
| 1928 | 361 | #361 | 0.31 |
| 1927 | 389 | #339 | 0.33 |
| 1926 | 411 | #327 | 0.35 |
| 1925 | 393 | #339 | 0.32 |
| 1924 | 362 | #361 | 0.29 |
| 1923 | 350 | #354 | 0.29 |
| 1922 | 371 | #337 | 0.31 |
| 1921 | 327 | #372 | 0.27 |
| 1920 | 331 | #359 | 0.28 |
| 1919 | 310 | #367 | 0.27 |
| 1918 | 332 | #355 | 0.29 |
| 1917 | 302 | #361 | 0.28 |
| 1916 | 283 | #370 | 0.27 |
| 1915 | 261 | #374 | 0.27 |
| 1914 | 177 | #396 | 0.23 |
| 1913 | 133 | #430 | 0.21 |
| 1912 | 137 | #395 | 0.25 |
| 1911 | 89 | #433 | 0.21 |
| 1910 | 77 | #457 | 0.19 |
| 1909 | 53 | #521 | 0.15 |
| 1908 | 66 | #447 | 0.20 |
| 1907 | 58 | #473 | 0.18 |
| 1906 | 48 | #505 | 0.16 |
| 1905 | 64 | #425 | 0.22 |
| 1904 | 60 | #420 | 0.22 |
| 1903 | 49 | #460 | 0.19 |
| 1902 | 50 | #444 | 0.19 |
| 1901 | 38 | #498 | 0.16 |
| 1900 | 48 | #492 | 0.16 |
| 1899 | 33 | #525 | 0.14 |
| 1898 | 49 | #440 | 0.19 |
| 1897 | 38 | #469 | 0.16 |
| 1896 | 37 | #486 | 0.16 |
| 1895 | 31 | #537 | 0.13 |
| 1894 | 35 | #486 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 22 | #628 | 0.10 |
| 1892 | 31 | #497 | 0.15 |
| 1891 | 14 | #747 | 0.08 |
| 1890 | 19 | #615 | 0.10 |
| 1889 | 25 | #515 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 24 | #524 | 0.13 |
| 1887 | 13 | #660 | 0.09 |
| 1886 | 14 | #632 | 0.10 |
| 1885 | 10 | #744 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 9 | #790 | 0.07 |
| 1883 | 11 | #612 | 0.10 |
| 1882 | 6 | #904 | 0.06 |
| 1880 | 11 | #546 | 0.12 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wilda a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wilda has been given almost only to girls: 15 boys in 119 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wilda: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wilda, and how old are they?
3,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 24% of the 12,774 Americans ever recorded as Wilda. The median Wilda alive today is 77 years old; half are between 68 and 85.
The 2020 Census counted 4,440 people named Wilda (4,423 women and girls, 17 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,174 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 1,130 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,390 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 302 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 122 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 6 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 13 |
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 Wilda born?
The states with the most babies named Wilda are West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910; West Virginia is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Virginia | 1,064 | not ranked | 5.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 895 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 870 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Louisiana | 667 | not ranked | 2.6× |
| Texas | 594 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Missouri | 538 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Oklahoma | 427 | not ranked | 1.8× |
| Kentucky | 390 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Alabama | 352 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 309 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Wilda is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wilda is most over-represented in West Virginia: since 1910 it was given 5.2 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 girls’ 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 Wilda with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wilda
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 Wilda and names like it
- Compare Wilda and OuidaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWilda peaked in 1926.
- West Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wilda since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Wilda.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wilda alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.