girls:
662 births since 1924
#5054 (12th percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1880
#1564 (66th percentile)
overall:
6.4k births since 1880
#3390 (56th percentile)
The name Wylie is the #3,390 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 6,394 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 56.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 56.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,564 (65.9% percentile) for all time with 5,732 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,054 (11.6% percentile) for all time with 662 births since 1924.
Wylie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1924 for girls). Birth data for Wylie is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 34 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 Wylie has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 68.1% of babies named Wylie were boys.
For boys, Wylie reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 15.3% percentile (ranked #788) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 1895, with 142 births per million (ranked 5.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1993, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wylie ranks #805 for boys (11.6% percentile) with 61 births per million, which is 42.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wylie reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 5.2% percentile (ranked #908) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 31 births per million (ranked 5.2% percentile). Despite a peak around 2011, the name has seen a recent rise in popularity for girls. Currently, Wylie is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #900 (5.0% percentile) with 30 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wylie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wylie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wylie is pronounced as WAI-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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