girls:
5 births since 1917
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
454 births since 1906
#4132 (10th percentile)
overall:
459 births since 1906
#7280 (6th percentile)
The name Wilmot is the #7,280 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 459 recorded births since 1906. This represents the 5.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,132 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 454 births since 1906. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1917.
Wilmot first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1906 (1906 for boys and 1917 for girls). Birth data for Wilmot is available in 43 out of the 88 years between 1906 and 1993 (43 years for boys and 1 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 Wilmot has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wilmot reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 4.4% percentile (ranked #480) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 1906, with 42 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1993.
For girls, Wilmot reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #577) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1917.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wilmot".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Wilmot. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 73.2% confident that Wilmot is pronounced as WIHL-muht, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WIHL-maht, at 26.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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