Wilfrid
Wilfrid is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 776th, in 1907.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192257 births
- Best rank
- #776in 1907
- Since 1887
- 1,419people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,419 boys have been named Wilfrid in the United States since 1887, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1922, with 57 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 57 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1925, and the 1920s alone account for 32%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wilfrid | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 46 | |
| 1900s | 61 | |
| 1910s | 318 | |
| 1920s | 460 | |
| 1930s | 234 | |
| 1940s | 138 | |
| 1950s | 62 | |
| 1960s | 38 | |
| 1970s | 20 | |
| 1980s | 12 | |
| 2000s | 13 | |
| 2010s | 7 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1922, its biggest year
Wilfrid was the 927th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1922 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1922.
Names that rose and fell with Wilfrid
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Cyrilpeak 1916
- Merlpeak 1922
- Murlpeak 1919
- Vesterpeak 1922
- Ellwoodpeak 1918
- Erwinpeak 1918
- Loydpeak 1926
- Murrypeak 1917
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.