Wilber
About 6,902 American babies have been named Wilber since 1880, most of them around 1919. In 2025 it ranked 3,949th. About 2,500 Wilbers are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Wilber boys named Wilber
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 6,902
- Estimated living today
- 2,500
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1919
- Best rank
- 468th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,949th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 11 / 6,891
How old the living Wilbers are
born that year still alive today
Of the 6,902 babies given the name since 1880, about 2,500 are alive — 36 in every hundred. Roughly 680 of them are children and 630 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Wilbers
- Wilber Pan (born 1980)Taiwanese-American singer, actor and entrepreneur
- Edward Wilber Berry (1875–1945)American paleobotanist
- Wilber Sánchez (born 1968)Cuban Olympic wrestler
People named Wilber with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Wilber is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Wilber is most concentrated in Nebraska (5.2×), South Carolina (5.0×), Kansas (3.2×), Missouri (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1919
The most popular boys’ names the year Wilber peaked:
Wilber elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Wilber | 15 | 3,334th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Where Wilber lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 224 men called Wilber were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Wilber | 11 | 0.021 | 3,235 |
| Balears, Illes | Wilber | 12 | 0.019 | 2,707 |
| Castellón/Castelló | Wilber | 6 | 0.019 | 2,463 |
| Granada | Wilber | 8 | 0.017 | 2,095 |
| Bizkaia | Wilber | 8 | 0.014 | 2,505 |
| Barcelona | Wilber | 42 | 0.014 | 3,039 |
Listed in 9 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 43 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Wilber against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.