Wylder
Wylder was given to 407 boys in 2025, #671 among boys’ names; 2,760 Americans have been recorded with it since 2005 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,740 Americans named Wylder and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 4 years old and half are between 2 and 7.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wylder by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wylder?
#671 among boys’ names, 2025
Wylder rose from #2,638 in 2015 to #671 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.02 to 0.24 per 1,000.
448 babies in 2025, the peak
Wylder peaked in 2025, when 448 babies were given it (407 boys, #671 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 403 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 407 | #671 | 0.24 |
| 2024 | 403 | #679 | 0.23 |
| 2023 | 370 | #718 | 0.22 |
| 2022 | 283 | #856 | 0.16 |
| 2021 | 229 | #975 | 0.13 |
| 2020 | 156 | #1,214 | 0.09 |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,353 | 0.07 |
| 2018 | 128 | #1,384 | 0.07 |
| 2017 | 109 | #1,523 | 0.06 |
| 2016 | 73 | #1,989 | 0.04 |
Every recorded year (21)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 47 | #2,638 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 27 | #3,884 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 36 | #3,116 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 24 | #4,240 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 21 | #4,647 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,557 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,315 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,740 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 12 | #7,059 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 7 | #10,610 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,411 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wylder a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,760 Americans recorded as Wylder, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 41 girls and 407 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Wylder: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wylder, and how old are they?
2,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,760 Americans ever recorded as Wylder. The median Wylder alive today is 4 years old; half are between 2 and 7.
The 2020 Census counted 728 people named Wylder (82 women and girls, 646 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 776 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 111 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,630 |
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 Wylder born?
The states with the most babies named Wylder are Texas, Tennessee and California, with 22% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Tennessee is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 32 | #934 | 0.6× |
| Tennessee | 29 | #309 | 1.5× |
| California | 25 | #1,078 | 0.6× |
| North Carolina | 17 | #590 | 1.2× |
| Indiana | 17 | #430 | 0.6× |
| Wisconsin | 15 | #373 | 0.7× |
| Georgia | 14 | #706 | 1.1× |
| Florida | 14 | #1,006 | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 14 | #673 | 0.6× |
| Arkansas | 14 | #271 | 1.5× |
Where Wylder is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wylder is most over-represented in Tennessee: since 2005 it was given 1.5 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 Wylder 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 11,595 babies since 1880, Wylder is the second most given (24% of them). In 2025 it was given to 448 of their 1,234 babies (36%), again the second 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 Wylder
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 Wylder and names like it
- Compare Wylder and WilderBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWylder peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wylder since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Wylder.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wylder alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.