Wylder — #680 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Wylder

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,103 babies named Wylder between 2005 and 2024, spanning 20 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wylder currently holds the #680 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2024, when 400 babies received it in a single year. Wylder is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 206 additional births since 2015.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wylder performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,438 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Wylder shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 172 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Wylder in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wylder 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 2,103 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.