Wilkie — boys' name

What the Data Says About Wilkie

The Social Security Administration has registered 340 babies named Wilkie between 1914 and 1978, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wilkie currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1978. The name reached its historical peak in 1940, when 61 babies received it in a single year. Wilkie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 18 additional births since 1919.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wilkie performed strongest in the 1940s, accumulating 143 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Wilkie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in North Carolina, which accounts for 13 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Kentucky and West Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Wilkie in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wilkie 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 340 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.