# Wilder (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wilder/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,835 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 8,197 / 638 (7% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 206, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | 20,067 |
| 2010 | 5 | 19,689 |
| 2013 | 5 | 19,140 |
| 2014 | 10 | 10,916 |
| 2015 | 22 | 6,022 |
| 2016 | 38 | 3,991 |
| 2017 | 33 | 4,378 |
| 2018 | 53 | 3,104 |
| 2019 | 47 | 3,385 |
| 2020 | 72 | 2,438 |
| 2021 | 88 | 2,152 |
| 2022 | 89 | 2,155 |
| 2023 | 51 | 3,221 |
| 2024 | 49 | 3,275 |
| 2025 | 43 | 3,572 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 62 | 2,143 |
| 2012 | 93 | 1,667 |
| 2013 | 127 | 1,344 |
| 2014 | 134 | 1,317 |
| 2015 | 215 | 965 |
| 2016 | 338 | 726 |
| 2017 | 477 | 573 |
| 2018 | 540 | 527 |
| 2019 | 601 | 485 |
| 2020 | 695 | 427 |
| 2021 | 890 | 367 |
| 2022 | 867 | 374 |
| 2023 | 755 | 422 |
| 2024 | 836 | 390 |
| 2025 | 743 | 431 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 3 | 5,581 |
| 2025 | 5 | 4,201 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 3 | 4,432 |
| 2016 | 7 | 2,804 |
| 2017 | 7 | 2,734 |
| 2018 | 8 | 2,445 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,506 |
| 2020 | 23 | 1,150 |
| 2021 | 15 | 1,595 |
| 2022 | 20 | 1,314 |
| 2023 | 27 | 1,071 |
| 2024 | 41 | 800 |
| 2025 | 31 | 976 |

## People named Wilder

- Wilder Penfield, Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach (1891–1976)
- Wilder Guisao, Colombian association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.