girls:
176 births since 2015
#5540 (3rd percentile)
boys:
1.7k births since 2005
#3006 (34th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 2005
#5887 (24th percentile)
The name Wylder is the #5,887 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,873 recorded births since 2005. This represents the 23.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 23.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,006 (34.4% percentile) for all time with 1,697 births since 2005. For girls, it ranks #5,540 (3.0% percentile) for all time with 176 births since 2015.
Wylder first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2005 (2005 for boys and 2015 for girls).
The name Wylder has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 92.9% of babies named Wylder were boys.
For boys, Wylder reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 36.7% percentile (ranked #577) with 199 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 199 births per million (ranked 36.7% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wylder is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #577 (36.7% percentile) with 199 births per million.
For girls, Wylder reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 3.2% percentile (ranked #927) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 20 births per million (ranked 3.2% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Wylder ranks #924 for girls (2.4% percentile) with 16 births per million, which is 79.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wylder".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Wylder is pronounced as WAIL-der, which has 2 syllables.
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