Wilder
About 8,835 American babies have been named Wilder since 1914, most of them around 2021. In 2025 it ranked 429th. About 8,600 Wilders are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 4.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Wilder boys named Wilder
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,835
- Estimated living today
- 8,600
- Median age today
- 4
- Peak year
- 2021
- Best rank
- 366th
- Rank in 2025
- 429th
- First recorded
- 1914
- Girls / boys
- 638 / 8,197
How old the living Wilders are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,835 babies given the name since 1914, about 8,600 are alive — 97 in every hundred. Roughly 8,100 of them are children and 20 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2021 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 Wilders
- Wilder Penfield (1891–1976)Canadian neurosurgeon, college football player and coach
- Wilder Cartagena (born 1994)Peruvian footballer
People named Wilder with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Wilder is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Wilder is most concentrated in Vermont (4.6×), Colorado (2.9×), Idaho (2.7×), Tennessee (2.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2021
The most popular boys’ names the year Wilder peaked:
Wilder elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Wilder | 198 | 800th |
| Scotland boys | Wilder | 9 | 728th |
| England and Wales girls | Wilder | 8 | 4,201st |
| Ireland boys | Wilder | 5 | 577th |
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 Wilder lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 311 men called Wilder 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Granada | Wilder | 14 | 0.030 | 1,416 |
| Madrid | Wilder | 80 | 0.023 | 2,008 |
| AlmerÃa | Wilder | 9 | 0.023 | 2,187 |
| Bizkaia | Wilder | 12 | 0.021 | 1,908 |
| Barcelona | Wilder | 57 | 0.020 | 2,396 |
| Balears, Illes | Wilder | 12 | 0.019 | 2,707 |
Listed in 13 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 39 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
Wilder 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.