Wisdom
Wisdom is given to both girls and boys: 61 girls and 160 boys were given it in 2025 (#2,819 among girls’ names and #1,251 among boys’, #2,073 among all names counting both); 2,189 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Wisdom every year since 2025.
An estimated 2,170 Americans named Wisdom and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 4 and 18.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wisdom by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wisdom?
#1,251 among boys’ names, 2025
Wisdom rose from #2,681 in 2015 to #1,251 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 24.0 to 93.7 per million.
221 babies in 2025, the peak
Wisdom peaked in 2025, when 221 babies were given it (160 boys, #1,251 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 50 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 61 | #2,819 | 160 | #1,251 |
| 2024 | 53 | #3,077 | 50 | #2,673 |
| 2023 | 51 | #3,222 | 71 | #2,094 |
| 2022 | 58 | #2,927 | 75 | #2,036 |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,082 | 58 | #2,367 |
| 2020 | 43 | #3,543 | 41 | #2,919 |
| 2019 | 44 | #3,548 | 54 | #2,485 |
| 2018 | 44 | #3,557 | 52 | #2,504 |
| 2017 | 34 | #4,300 | 38 | #3,119 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,584 | 44 | #2,776 |
Every recorded year (36)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 38 | #3,984 | 46 | #2,681 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,773 | 31 | #3,527 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,415 | 37 | #3,055 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,288 | 40 | #2,949 |
| 2011 | 31 | #4,674 | 41 | #2,902 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,299 | 31 | #3,523 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,266 | 26 | #4,024 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,641 | 31 | #3,556 |
| 2007 | 38 | #4,124 | 22 | #4,483 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,225 | 29 | #3,596 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,106 | 23 | #4,054 |
| 2004 | 32 | #4,378 | 17 | #4,994 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,405 | 15 | #5,249 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,079 | 11 | #6,505 |
| 2001 | 30 | #4,201 | 14 | #5,374 |
| 2000 | 13 | #8,011 | 16 | #4,772 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,207 | 15 | #4,747 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,485 | 10 | #6,291 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,779 | 8 | #7,254 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,562 | 9 | #6,479 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,481 | 6 | #8,829 |
| 1994 | 5 | #15,690 | under 5 | |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,598 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 7 | #7,148 | |
| 1989 | under 5 | 6 | #7,876 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 7 | #6,397 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Wisdom a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,189 Americans recorded as Wisdom, 48% are girls and 52% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Wisdom: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wisdom, and how old are they?
2,170 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,189 Americans ever recorded as Wisdom. The median Wisdom alive today is 10 years old; half are between 4 and 18.
The 2020 Census counted 1,461 people named Wisdom (626 women and girls, 835 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,440 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 63 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 778 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,330 |
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 Wisdom born?
The states with the most babies named Wisdom are Georgia, Florida and Texas, with 47% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 24 | #564 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 23 | #702 | 0.6× |
| Texas | 17 | #1,902 | 0.5× |
| California | 15 | #1,680 | 0.2× |
| North Carolina | 10 | #867 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 10 | #1,182 | 0.2× |
| South Carolina | 8 | #607 | 0.3× |
| Virginia | 7 | #966 | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,106 | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,257 | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ 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 Wisdom 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 Wisdom
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 Wisdom and names like it
- Compare Wisdom and ZianBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWisdom peaked in 2025.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wisdom since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Wisdom.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wisdom alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.