Wyman
Wyman was last recorded in 2024, when 7 babies were given it; 3,066 Americans have been recorded with it between 1898 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Wyman and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 41 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wyman by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wyman?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #10,870, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
63 babies in 1922, the peak
Wyman peaked in 1922, when 63 boys were given it, #870 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 7 | #10,870 | 4.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #12,172 | 3.5 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,783 | 4.0 |
| 2021 | 8 | #9,650 | 4.6 |
| 2020 | 7 | #10,545 | 4.1 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,606 | 6.1 |
| 2018 | 5 | #13,994 | 2.8 |
| 2017 | 10 | #8,107 | 5.4 |
| 2016 | 9 | #8,770 | 4.7 |
| 2015 | 9 | #8,708 | 4.7 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 5 | #13,971 | 2.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #10,671 | 3.7 |
| 2012 | 6 | #12,201 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 6 | #12,214 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 5 | #14,158 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,666 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 5 | #14,515 | 2.5 |
| 2007 | 8 | #9,745 | 3.9 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,686 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,412 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,118 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,538 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 6 | #10,616 | 3.1 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,305 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 8 | #8,171 | 4.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,550 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,859 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 11 | #5,628 | 5.8 |
| 1996 | 17 | #4,007 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,264 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,947 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #6,200 | 4.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,851 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 5 | #9,605 | 2.5 |
| 1990 | 20 | #3,158 | 9.7 |
| 1989 | 13 | #4,261 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 11 | #4,434 | 5.7 |
| 1987 | 13 | #3,718 | 7.0 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,838 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,586 | 7.0 |
| 1984 | 18 | #2,702 | 10.0 |
| 1983 | 9 | #4,489 | 5.0 |
| 1982 | 18 | #2,706 | 9.9 |
| 1981 | 15 | #3,025 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,961 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #3,806 | 6.4 |
| 1978 | 14 | #3,067 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,201 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 26 | #1,929 | 16.6 |
| 1975 | 27 | #1,833 | 17.3 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,274 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 22 | #1,979 | 14.1 |
| 1972 | 23 | #1,927 | 14.2 |
| 1971 | 32 | #1,558 | 18.1 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,792 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 28 | #1,568 | 15.7 |
| 1968 | 24 | #1,647 | 13.8 |
| 1967 | 30 | #1,409 | 17.2 |
| 1966 | 25 | #1,578 | 14.0 |
| 1965 | 29 | #1,454 | 15.6 |
| 1964 | 39 | #1,261 | 19.6 |
| 1963 | 32 | #1,401 | 15.8 |
| 1962 | 36 | #1,309 | 17.4 |
| 1961 | 33 | #1,404 | 15.5 |
| 1960 | 37 | #1,317 | 17.4 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,197 | 20.1 |
| 1958 | 44 | #1,170 | 20.7 |
| 1957 | 35 | #1,342 | 16.2 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,069 | 24.1 |
| 1955 | 45 | #1,112 | 21.8 |
| 1954 | 41 | #1,184 | 20.1 |
| 1953 | 57 | #957 | 28.9 |
| 1952 | 52 | #1,000 | 26.8 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,068 | 24.4 |
| 1950 | 49 | #1,004 | 27.4 |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,027 | 26.5 |
| 1948 | 41 | #1,125 | 23.4 |
| 1947 | 52 | #998 | 28.4 |
| 1946 | 43 | #1,058 | 26.5 |
| 1945 | 42 | #993 | 31.2 |
| 1944 | 46 | #963 | 33.8 |
| 1943 | 43 | #1,036 | 30.1 |
| 1942 | 45 | #1,006 | 32.6 |
| 1941 | 49 | #917 | 39.9 |
| 1940 | 35 | #1,134 | 30.2 |
| 1939 | 32 | #1,167 | 28.9 |
| 1938 | 41 | #1,008 | 37.0 |
| 1937 | 35 | #1,118 | 32.8 |
| 1936 | 42 | #971 | 40.5 |
| 1935 | 46 | #939 | 44.2 |
| 1934 | 42 | #1,005 | 40.7 |
| 1933 | 40 | #1,027 | 40.3 |
| 1932 | 47 | #962 | 45.0 |
| 1931 | 50 | #921 | 48.1 |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,366 | 26.4 |
| 1929 | 36 | #1,172 | 33.5 |
| 1928 | 37 | #1,187 | 33.4 |
| 1927 | 42 | #1,111 | 37.3 |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,123 | 36.9 |
| 1925 | 45 | #1,039 | 40.3 |
| 1924 | 54 | #959 | 47.7 |
| 1923 | 53 | #953 | 48.4 |
| 1922 | 63 | #870 | 57.9 |
| 1921 | 61 | #900 | 55.4 |
| 1920 | 47 | #1,019 | 44.2 |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,023 | 45.9 |
| 1918 | 33 | #1,230 | 32.6 |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,112 | 40.0 |
| 1916 | 41 | #1,012 | 46.1 |
| 1915 | 25 | #1,371 | 29.5 |
| 1914 | 24 | #1,220 | 36.7 |
| 1913 | 10 | #1,942 | 19.5 |
| 1912 | 14 | #1,350 | 32.6 |
| 1911 | 21 | #706 | 92.9 |
| 1910 | 5 | #1,836 | 25.7 |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,019 | 61.0 |
| 1908 | 9 | #1,020 | 58.3 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,545 | 34.1 |
| 1906 | 5 | #1,411 | 37.6 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,201 | 46.8 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,317 | 40.8 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,287 | 40.8 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wyman a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wyman has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 122 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wyman: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wyman, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 46% of the 3,066 Americans ever recorded as Wyman. The median Wyman alive today is 60 years old; half are between 41 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 1,465 people named Wyman (19 women and girls, 1,446 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,608 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 146 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 536 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 327 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 195 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 129 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 90 |
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 Wyman born?
The states with the most babies named Wyman are Georgia, South Carolina and Alabama, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910; South Carolina and Alabama are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 231 | not ranked | 2.7× |
| South Carolina | 206 | not ranked | 3.8× |
| Alabama | 87 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Michigan | 30 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| California | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 7 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Wisconsin | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.0× |
| Minnesota | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Wyman is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wyman is most over-represented in South Carolina: since 1910 it was given 3.8 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 Wyman 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 3,155 babies since 1880, Wyman is the most given (97% of them).
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 Wyman
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 Wyman and names like it
- Compare Wyman and WymonBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWyman peaked in 1922.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wyman since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Wyman.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wyman alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.