Wylie

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Wylie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 162 births. Its best rank was 460th, in 1887.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1620.01% of boys
Peak year: 2024162 births
Best rank: #460in 1887
Since 1880: 6,622people given the name

Babies named Wylie, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,896 boys have been named Wylie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2024, with 162 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1968, and the 2010s alone account for 15%. It has spent 58 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 726 girls have also been given it, 11% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Wylie
1880s	115
1890s	101
1900s	116
1910s	406
1920s	549
1930s	528
1940s	481
1950s	385
1960s	317
1970s	292
1980s	252
1990s	306
2000s	545
2010s	873
2020s	630

In 2024, its biggest year

Wylie was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2024 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, Theodore and James. See all of 2024.

Names that rose and fell with Wylie

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.