girls:
18 births since 1919
#5698 (0th percentile)
boys:
340 births since 1914
#4246 (7th percentile)
overall:
358 births since 1914
#7381 (5th percentile)
The name Wilkie is the #7,381 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 358 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 4.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 4.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,246 (7.4% percentile) for all time with 340 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,698 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 18 births since 1919.
Wilkie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1919 for girls). Birth data for Wilkie is available in 36 out of the 65 years between 1914 and 1978 (36 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Wilkie has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wilkie reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 10.7% percentile (ranked #469) with 51 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 51 births per million (ranked 10.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1978.
For girls, Wilkie reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #601) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1927.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilkie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Wilkie is pronounced as WIHL-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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