girls:
347 births since 1921
#5369 (6th percentile)
boys:
18.1k births since 1880
#855 (81st percentile)
overall:
18.4k births since 1880
#1893 (76th percentile)
The name Wiley is the #1,893 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,399 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #855 (81.4% percentile) for all time with 18,052 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,369 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 347 births since 1921.
Wiley has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls).
The name Wiley has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.1% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 85.6% of babies named Wiley were boys.
For boys, Wiley reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 43.4% percentile (ranked #312) with 267 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 754 births per million (ranked 40.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1996, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wiley ranks #731 for boys (19.8% percentile) with 101 births per million, which is 13.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wiley reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #921) with 18 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 18 births per million (ranked 2.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Wiley is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #921 (2.7% percentile) with 18 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wiley".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wiley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wiley is pronounced as WAI-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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