# Wilford (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/wilford/  
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 | 10,447 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 10,442 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 3, 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 1925 | 5 | 5,748 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | 9,827 |
| 2010 | 15 | 6,020 |
| 2011 | 10 | 8,042 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,710 |
| 2013 | 9 | 8,744 |
| 2014 | 11 | 7,526 |
| 2015 | 10 | 8,005 |
| 2016 | 8 | 9,613 |
| 2017 | 10 | 8,109 |
| 2018 | 6 | 12,069 |
| 2020 | 7 | 10,549 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,781 |
| 2023 | 10 | 8,224 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14,165 |
| 2025 | 9 | 8,872 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 3 | 5,119 |

## People named Wilford

- Wilford Brimley, American actor and singer (1934–2020)
- Wilford Horace Smith, African-American lawyer
- Wilford Leach, American film director (1929–1988)
- Alma Richards, American Olympic high jump gold medalist athlete, soldier, lawyer and teacher (1890–1963)
- Jesse W. Reno, American inventor (1861–1947)
- Little Brother Montgomery, American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist and singer (1906–1985)

## 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.