Wyatt
Wyatt was given to 6,480 boys in 2025, #38 among boys’ names; 209,814 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 205,000 Americans named Wyatt and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wyatt by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wyatt mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wyatt is “a male given name from the Germanic languages, modern transferred use of the surname.” Its etymology gives the senses “war” (wīg) and “hard, brave” (heard).
Ultimately from the Old English personal name Wigheard, from wīg (“war”) + heard (“hard, brave”), later also used as a Middle English diminutive of the names Guy and William.
/ˈwaɪ.ət/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wyatt?
#38 among boys’ names, 2025
Wyatt fell from #34 in 2015 to #38 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.0 to 3.8 per 1,000.
9,834 babies in 2017, the peak
Wyatt peaked in 2017, when 9,834 babies were given it (9,727 boys, #25 among boys’ names). The 6,625 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6,480 | #38 | 3.8 |
| 2024 | 6,605 | #38 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 6,273 | #47 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7,184 | #38 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 8,049 | #29 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 8,223 | #29 | 4.8 |
| 2019 | 8,836 | #29 | 4.9 |
| 2018 | 9,183 | #27 | 5.1 |
| 2017 | 9,727 | #25 | 5.3 |
| 2016 | 9,581 | #33 | 5.0 |
Every recorded year (146)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 9,659 | #34 | 5.0 |
| 2014 | 8,895 | #39 | 4.6 |
| 2013 | 8,567 | #42 | 4.5 |
| 2012 | 8,233 | #41 | 4.3 |
| 2011 | 7,687 | #48 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 7,377 | #57 | 3.8 |
| 2009 | 7,404 | #60 | 3.7 |
| 2008 | 7,313 | #62 | 3.6 |
| 2007 | 6,522 | #69 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 5,835 | #82 | 2.8 |
| 2005 | 5,356 | #81 | 2.7 |
| 2004 | 4,974 | #90 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 3,699 | #109 | 1.9 |
| 2002 | 3,232 | #121 | 1.7 |
| 2001 | 3,601 | #107 | 1.9 |
| 2000 | 3,411 | #110 | 1.7 |
| 1999 | 2,895 | #131 | 1.5 |
| 1998 | 2,722 | #137 | 1.4 |
| 1997 | 2,747 | #137 | 1.5 |
| 1996 | 2,789 | #134 | 1.5 |
| 1995 | 2,826 | #128 | 1.5 |
| 1994 | 1,544 | #197 | 0.80 |
| 1993 | 628 | #375 | 0.32 |
| 1992 | 645 | #366 | 0.32 |
| 1991 | 569 | #400 | 0.28 |
| 1990 | 571 | #403 | 0.28 |
| 1989 | 480 | #429 | 0.24 |
| 1988 | 380 | #469 | 0.20 |
| 1987 | 364 | #465 | 0.19 |
| 1986 | 294 | #518 | 0.16 |
| 1985 | 210 | #604 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 206 | #590 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 207 | #595 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 206 | #600 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 223 | #572 | 0.12 |
| 1980 | 233 | #567 | 0.13 |
| 1979 | 193 | #617 | 0.11 |
| 1978 | 189 | #608 | 0.12 |
| 1977 | 177 | #638 | 0.11 |
| 1976 | 183 | #602 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 179 | #610 | 0.11 |
| 1974 | 148 | #667 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 139 | #677 | 0.09 |
| 1972 | 150 | #655 | 0.09 |
| 1971 | 145 | #689 | 0.08 |
| 1970 | 123 | #746 | 0.07 |
| 1969 | 97 | #789 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 81 | #824 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 57 | #967 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 58 | #960 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 78 | #836 | 0.04 |
| 1964 | 71 | #905 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 67 | #919 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 72 | #900 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 80 | #857 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 104 | #758 | 0.05 |
| 1959 | 137 | #658 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 184 | #570 | 0.09 |
| 1957 | 278 | #462 | 0.13 |
| 1956 | 258 | #468 | 0.12 |
| 1955 | 124 | #658 | 0.06 |
| 1954 | 57 | #994 | 0.03 |
| 1953 | 64 | #901 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 56 | #963 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,067 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 50 | #987 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,006 | 0.03 |
| 1948 | 53 | #961 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,079 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,043 | 0.03 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,037 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 53 | #877 | 0.04 |
| 1943 | 50 | #955 | 0.04 |
| 1942 | 50 | #946 | 0.04 |
| 1941 | 42 | #1,003 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 46 | #951 | 0.04 |
| 1939 | 43 | #975 | 0.04 |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,108 | 0.03 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,073 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,049 | 0.04 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,246 | 0.03 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,132 | 0.03 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,180 | 0.03 |
| 1932 | 47 | #961 | 0.05 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,144 | 0.03 |
| 1930 | 44 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,077 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 63 | #834 | 0.06 |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,079 | 0.04 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,091 | 0.04 |
| 1925 | 49 | #983 | 0.04 |
| 1924 | 66 | #848 | 0.06 |
| 1923 | 59 | #895 | 0.05 |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,022 | 0.05 |
| 1921 | 49 | #1,009 | 0.04 |
| 1920 | 51 | #973 | 0.05 |
| 1919 | 84 | #681 | 0.09 |
| 1918 | 65 | #817 | 0.06 |
| 1917 | 48 | #933 | 0.05 |
| 1916 | 46 | #951 | 0.05 |
| 1915 | 54 | #845 | 0.06 |
| 1914 | 43 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1913 | 35 | #817 | 0.07 |
| 1912 | 29 | #834 | 0.07 |
| 1911 | 16 | #854 | 0.07 |
| 1910 | 14 | #858 | 0.07 |
| 1909 | 20 | #614 | 0.12 |
| 1908 | 12 | #823 | 0.08 |
| 1907 | 14 | #734 | 0.10 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,002 | 0.06 |
| 1905 | 11 | #785 | 0.08 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,200 | 0.05 |
| 1903 | 11 | #733 | 0.09 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,134 | 0.05 |
| 1901 | 12 | #636 | 0.11 |
| 1900 | 14 | #697 | 0.09 |
| 1899 | 13 | #582 | 0.12 |
| 1898 | 13 | #633 | 0.11 |
| 1897 | 10 | #724 | 0.09 |
| 1896 | 20 | #461 | 0.17 |
| 1895 | 11 | #682 | 0.09 |
| 1894 | 18 | #479 | 0.16 |
| 1893 | 14 | #537 | 0.12 |
| 1892 | 11 | #686 | 0.09 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,125 | 0.05 |
| 1890 | 12 | #602 | 0.11 |
| 1889 | 15 | #497 | 0.14 |
| 1888 | 16 | #503 | 0.13 |
| 1887 | 11 | #582 | 0.11 |
| 1886 | 12 | #577 | 0.11 |
| 1885 | 9 | #699 | 0.08 |
| 1884 | 13 | #546 | 0.11 |
| 1883 | 6 | #888 | 0.06 |
| 1882 | 12 | #575 | 0.11 |
| 1881 | 14 | #486 | 0.14 |
| 1880 | 15 | #481 | 0.14 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wyatt a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wyatt has been given almost only to boys: 1,362 girls in 146 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wyatt: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wyatt, and how old are they?
205,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 209,814 Americans ever recorded as Wyatt. The median Wyatt alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 152,059 people named Wyatt (716 women and girls, 151,343 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 164,458 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 151 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,260 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,990 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 11,700 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 82,000 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 108,000 |
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 Wyatt born?
The states with the most babies named Wyatt are Texas, California and Florida, with 21% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 608 | #56 | 0.7× |
| California | 449 | #87 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 332 | #59 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 310 | #19 | 1.2× |
| North Carolina | 305 | #18 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 303 | #23 | 1.0× |
| Tennessee | 250 | #15 | 1.0× |
| New York | 225 | #80 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 222 | #20 | 1.1× |
| Virginia | 201 | #24 | 1.0× |
Where Wyatt is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wyatt is most over-represented in Wyoming: since 1910 it was given 2.0 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Wyatt with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 211,167 babies since 1880, Wyatt is the most given (99% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6,625 of their 6,672 babies (99%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wyatt
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 Wyatt and names like it
- Compare Wyatt and WhyattBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sWyatt peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wyatt since 1910.
- Germanic namesWiktionary’s origin for Wyatt: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Wyatt.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wyatt alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.