girls:
290 births since 1912
#5426 (5th percentile)
boys:
56.8k births since 1880
#451 (90th percentile)
overall:
57.1k births since 1880
#989 (87th percentile)
The name Wilbur is the #989 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 57,127 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 87.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #451 (90.2% percentile) for all time with 56,837 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,426 (5.0% percentile) for all time with 290 births since 1912.
Wilbur has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1912 for girls).
The name Wilbur has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wilbur reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 82.4% percentile (ranked #92) with 1,823 births per million. The name was most common in 1913, with 1,947 births per million (ranked 78.4% percentile). Despite a peak around 2019, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for boys. Currently, Wilbur ranks #883 for boys (3.1% percentile) with 18 births per million, which is 0.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wilbur reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 2.0% percentile (ranked #582) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1959.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilbur".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wilbur. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wilbur is pronounced as WIHL-ber, which has 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like W IH1 L B ER0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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