Wilbur
Wilbur is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 91st, in 1913.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 420.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 19181,800 births
- Best rank
- #91in 1913
- Since 1880
- 56,880people given the name
The story in the numbers
56,880 boys have been named Wilbur in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 1,800 births — 0.18% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 42 births in 2024, against 1,800 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 28%. It has spent 103 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wilbur | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 914 | |
| 1890s | 1,142 | |
| 1900s | 1,839 | |
| 1910s | 12,411 | |
| 1920s | 15,713 | |
| 1930s | 9,044 | |
| 1940s | 5,962 | |
| 1950s | 4,133 | |
| 1960s | 2,571 | |
| 1970s | 1,274 | |
| 1980s | 783 | |
| 1990s | 433 | |
| 2000s | 259 | |
| 2010s | 251 | |
| 2020s | 151 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Wilbur was the 97th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1918 were John, William, James, Robert and Charles. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Wilbur
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Orvillepeak 1920
- Alphonsepeak 1918
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Elwoodpeak 1921
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Morrispeak 1918
- Orvalpeak 1918
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.