Wyley
Wyley was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,917 among boys’ names; 158 Americans have been recorded with it since 1917 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wyley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wyley?
#11,917 among boys’ names, 2025
Wyley entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,917 in 2025.
9 babies in 2010, the peak
Wyley peaked in 2010, when 9 boys were given it, #8,751 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 67% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,917 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 8 | #9,774 | 4.6 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,649 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 6 | #11,939 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 5 | #14,092 | 2.6 |
| 2012 | 8 | #9,668 | 4.2 |
| 2010 | 9 | #8,751 | 4.7 |
| 2009 | 5 | #14,415 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 7 | #10,868 | 3.4 |
| 2005 | 8 | #9,069 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 5 | #12,688 | 2.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,416 | 4.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,770 | 2.7 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,354 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 6 | #3,791 | 3.0 |
| 1945 | 6 | #3,332 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,014 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,036 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,273 | 4.8 |
| 1928 | 5 | #4,716 | 4.5 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,300 | 5.5 |
| 1921 | 5 | #4,974 | 4.5 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,978 | 4.7 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,163 | 6.1 |
| 1918 | 5 | #4,805 | 4.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,974 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wyley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wyley has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 26 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wyley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wyley, and how old are they?
An estimated 99 Americans named Wyley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 218 people named Wyley (15 women and girls, 203 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 78 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Wyley?
Wyley is a less common spelling of Willie: SSA has recorded 158 Wyley and 596,385 Willie since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 627,177 babies since 1880, Wyley is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 658 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Wyley
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Armin | 3,317 |
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 Wyley and names like it
- Compare Wyley and WillieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sWyley peaked in 2010.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Wyley.
- Names starting with WMost given first.