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Wylder

Meaning not yet sourced

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #669 vs #1,897 in 2025

CommonRare
Rank 2015: #2,600, 2016: #1,975, 2017: #1,518, 2018: #1,375, 2019: #1,347, 2020: #1,209, 2021: #973, 2022: #855, 2023: #718, 2024: #677, 2025: #6691 in 4,197 boys in the US, 2025#669 · rising · was #2,600 in 2015
CommonRare
Rank 2017: #4,812, 2018: #3,412, 2019: #3,013, 2021: #3,017, 2022: #3,450, 2023: #1,800, 2024: #2,264, 2025: #1,8971 in 20,918 boys in E&W, 2025#1,897 · rising · was #4,812 in 2017

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What Wylder means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Wylder yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #669 vs #1,897 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Wylder?

US 2025
#669
407 babies
▲ 8 vs 2024
England & Wales 2025
#1897
13 babies
▲ 367 vs 2024
Scotland
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Not listed

US: Rising: up from #2600 in 2015. England & Wales: New in the last 10 years.

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US, 1880–2025England & Wales, 1996–2025Babies per 1,000 boys born. Dot: biggest US share (2025)

Biggest US share so far: 2025, when 407 boys got the name (#669 that year). First in the US records in 2005.

How common

  • About 1 in 4,197 baby boys in the US in 2025
  • About 1 in 20,918 baby boys in England and Wales 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 (1.62 per 1,000 boys), AR (1.11 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.93 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

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

US vs UK

Wylder is #669 in the US and #1897 in England & Wales (2025).

Rank 2025BabiesHow commonRank 2015
US#6694071 in 4,197#2600
England & Wales#1897131 in 20,918–
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Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 90.8% of US babies named Wylder were boys.

GirlsBoys
US 202541407
England & Wales 2025013
US all years since 18802472,513
England & Wales since 1996061

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

If you like Wylder

Boys

  • Ace#164Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #419 in 2015, #164 in 2025
  • Charlie#145Editor’s note More popular in England & Wales than the US: #22 vs #145 in 2025
  • Oliver#3Editor’s note Up from #19 in 2015 to #3 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 110 US boys in the 2025 records
  • Waylon#56Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #222 in 2015, #56 in 2025
  • Kash#286Editor’s note Up from #382 in 2015 to #286 in 2025 in the US
  • Roman#42Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #102 in 2015, #42 in 2025

For a sister

  • Ayla#77Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1963, with 6 babies
  • Ada#219“noble”
  • Elsie#123Diminutive of Alison, meaning “of noble kind”
  • Lucia#83Variant of Lucy, meaning “light”
  • Aurelia#290“golden”
  • Hazel#21From the word “hazel”

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Wylder’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.

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