Wing — boys' name

What the Data Says About Wing

The Social Security Administration has registered 166 babies named Wing between 1881 and 1990, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wing currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1990. The name reached its historical peak in 1984, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Wing is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 22 additional births since 1977.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wing performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 53 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Wing shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Wing in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wing 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 166 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.