How common is the surname Wild?

8,217 people in the United States had the surname Wild in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,574 Americans. It ranked 4,324th of 162,253 surnames.

What ethnicity is the surname Wild?

In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wild identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).

Who is the most famous person named Wild?

Vic Wild, American-born Russian snowboarder, followed by Jack Wild.

Where is the surname Wild most common?

Wikidata records people named Wild in the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil and 3 other countries.

Is the surname Wild getting more or less common?

More common. 8,091 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,217 in 2010, up 1.6%.

The surname Wild

A surname, carried by 8,217 people in the United States.

1 syllable Soundex W430

Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Wild is more common than 97.3% of them.

Origin

A surname from Middle English originally referring to a wild person, or for someone living in uncultivated land.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 8,217 people named Wild in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 37,574 Americans. That is up 1.6% since 2000, when the Census counted 8,091.

#4,324

rank among US surnames

8,217

people in 2010

2.8

per 100,000 Americans

+1.6%

change since 2000 (was #4,030)

Rank	Surname	People	1 in
#4,315	Poore	8,240	37,469
#4,317	Ives	8,233	37,501
#4,318	Winfield	8,230	37,515
#4,319	Sprouse	8,229	37,519
#4,320	Kirkwood	8,227	37,528
#4,321	Mowery	8,226	37,533
#4,322	Ahern	8,221	37,556

Who is named Wild

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

95% of people named Wild identified as white (not Hispanic), 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race) and 1.3% as two or more races.

White (not Hispanic) 95%
Hispanic or Latino (any race) 2.5%
Two or more races 1.3%
Asian and Pacific Islander 0.8%
Black (not Hispanic) 0.4%
American Indian and Alaska Native 0.4%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Famous Wilds

10 notable people on Wikidata, most written-about first

Vic Wild
American-born Russian snowboarder, born 1986
Jack Wild
British actor (1952–2006)
Frank Wild
British Antarctica explorer (1873-1939)
Thiago Seyboth Wild
Brazilian tennis player (born 2000)
Jonathan Wild
18th century English criminal, 1683–1725
Earl Wild
American musician (1915–2010)
Susan Wild
American politician and attorney (born 1957)
John Paul Wild
Australian radiophysicist (1923-2008)
Linda Wild
American tennis player, born 1971
Ernest Wild
British explorer (1879–1918)

Notable Wilds come mostly from the United States (4), the United Kingdom (2) and Brazil (1).

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Wild

Wild has the Soundex code W430, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code W430.

Questions

How common is the surname Wild?: 8,217 people in the United States had the surname Wild in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 37,574 Americans. It ranked 4,324th of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Wild?: In the 2010 Census, 95% of people named Wild identified as white (not Hispanic), and 2.5% as Hispanic or Latino (any race).
Who is the most famous person named Wild?: Vic Wild, American-born Russian snowboarder, followed by Jack Wild.
Where is the surname Wild most common?: Wikidata records people named Wild in the United States, the United Kingdom and Brazil and 3 other countries.
Is the surname Wild getting more or less common?: More common. 8,091 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 8,217 in 2010, up 1.6%.