Wilder — #391 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Wilder

The Social Security Administration has registered 7,447 babies named Wilder between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wilder currently holds the #391 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2021, when 890 babies received it in a single year. Wilder is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 595 additional births since 1918.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wilder performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 4,036 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Wilder shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 632 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Tennessee. In total, SSA state-level files list Wilder in 47 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wilder in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 7,447 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.