Wisdom — #2690 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Wisdom

The Social Security Administration has registered 983 babies named Wisdom between 1988 and 2024, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wisdom currently holds the #2690 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 75 babies received it in a single year. Wisdom is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 982 additional births since 1994.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wisdom performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 412 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Wisdom shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 60 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Florida and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Wisdom in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wisdom 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 983 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.