Wylee
Wylee is given to both girls and boys: 13 girls and 28 boys were given it in 2025 (#8,331 among girls’ names and #3,942 among boys’, #6,500 among all names counting both); 640 Americans have been recorded with it since 1979 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wylee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wylee?
#3,942 among boys’ names, 2025
Wylee rose from #5,974 in 2015 to #3,942 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 7.8 to 16.4 per million.
44 babies in 2024, the peak
Wylee peaked in 2024, when 44 babies were given it (29 boys, #3,888 among boys’ names). The 41 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 93% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,331 | 28 | #3,942 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,572 | 29 | #3,888 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,566 | 18 | #5,452 |
| 2022 | 14 | #8,002 | 20 | #5,002 |
| 2021 | 14 | #8,000 | 19 | #5,095 |
| 2020 | 8 | #12,082 | 18 | #5,213 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,694 | 14 | #6,388 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,401 | 25 | #4,213 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,312 | 22 | #4,581 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,212 | 26 | #4,089 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 12 | #9,453 | 15 | #5,974 |
| 2014 | under 5 | 18 | #5,237 | |
| 2013 | 5 | #19,140 | 27 | #3,856 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,893 | 16 | #5,704 |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,439 | 12 | #6,975 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 11 | #7,558 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 11 | #7,665 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 16 | #5,752 | |
| 2007 | 5 | #20,426 | 11 | #7,558 |
| 2006 | 6 | #17,042 | 13 | #6,440 |
| 2005 | under 5 | 17 | #5,023 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 15 | #5,476 | |
| 2003 | under 5 | 8 | #8,604 | |
| 2002 | under 5 | 10 | #7,019 | |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,875 | 5 | #12,242 |
| 2000 | 5 | #17,545 | 6 | #10,302 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 5 | #11,266 | |
| 1997 | under 5 | 12 | #5,272 | |
| 1995 | under 5 | 5 | #10,283 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #8,078 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 5 | #7,053 |
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 Wylee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 640 Americans recorded as Wylee, 28% are girls and 72% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Wylee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wylee, and how old are they?
An estimated 633 Americans named Wylee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 443 people named Wylee (147 women and girls, 296 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 435 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Wylee?
Wylee is a less common spelling of Willie: SSA has recorded 640 Wylee and 596,385 Willie since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 623,249 babies since 1880, Wylee is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 41 of their 631 babies (6.5%), again the fourth 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 Wylee
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 Wylee and names like it
- Compare Wylee and WillieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sWylee peaked in 2024.
- The top names of 2024The year the most babies were named Wylee.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Wylee alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with WMost given first.