Wilsie — unisex name
267 babies named Wilsie in U.S. Social Security records since 1899, with the highest year being 1918. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
37% of everyone ever named Wilsie was born in this single decade.
17 babies were named Wilsie in 1918 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Wilsie
The Social Security Administration has registered 267 babies named Wilsie between 1899 and 1962, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wilsie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1962. The name reached its historical peak in 1918, when 17 babies received it in a single year. Wilsie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 27 additional births since 1912.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Wilsie performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 100 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Wilsie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.
No etymological entry is currently available for Wilsie 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 267 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.
Wilsie at a glance
Last recorded 1962Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Wilsie popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1962–1899
- Peak year (1918)
- 17
- Annual births at peak — across 64 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1962.
267 total births across 64 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1918 with 17 births in a single year.
Wilsie popularity over time — boys
27 total births recorded since 1912 (Wilsie as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Wilsie accounts for 9% of total recorded use across both genders.
Wilsie by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 100 births that decade — 37% of Wilsie's all-time total
Wilsie decade highlights
- Peak decade 100 births
- Runner-up 93 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Wilsie's strongest decade
100 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 37% of all-time use.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1899–1962 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.