Wyatt

What Wyatt means

Means “war + hard, brave”

Ultimately from the Old English personal name Wigheard, from wīg (“war”) + heard (“hard, brave”), later also used as a Middle English diminutive of the names Guy and William.

Source: Wiktionary, “Wyatt” (revision 94544806), CC BY-SA 4.0. Quoted from the etymology; we don’t write our own.

How popular is Wyatt?

US: Falling: down from #34 in 2015. England & Wales: Steady: #322 in 2015, #306 now.

Biggest US share so far: 2017, when 9,727 boys got the name (#25 that year). First in the US records in 1880.

How common

• About 1 in 264 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 1,825 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 1,637 baby boys in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in WV (11.37 per 1,000 boys), WY (11.01 per 1,000 boys), VT (10.73 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Wyatt is #38 in the US and #306 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 97.8% of US babies named Wyatt were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Whyatt

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Wyatt

Boys

• Alonso#785Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #785 vs #1,897 in 2025
• Kai#93“warrior”^*
• Bruno#740“brown”^*
• Axel#79Editor’s note Up from #123 in 2015 to #79 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 410 US boys in the 2025 records
• Emory#883Editor’s note Down from #830 in 2015 to #883 in 2025 in the US
• Emery#814Editor’s note Down from #745 in 2015 to #814 in 2025 in the US

For a sister

• Mia#6Editor’s note Steady in the US: #6 in 2015 and #6 in 2025. About 1 in 150 US girls in the 2025 records
• Emma#3“entire”^*
• Alisson#511Variant of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”^*
• Adelaide#289“noble + nature, character”^*
• Matilda#364Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #19 vs #364 in 2025
• Ava#11Editor’s note Down from #4 in 2015 to #11 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 210 US girls in the 2025 records

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Germanic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Wyatt’s. Rank is US 2025.