Wilmer
Wilmer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 88 births. Its best rank was 256th, in 1915.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 880.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 1920443 births
- Best rank
- #256in 1915
- Since 1880
- 16,626people given the name
The story in the numbers
15,883 boys have been named Wilmer in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 443 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 86 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 743 girls have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wilmer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 163 | |
| 1890s | 218 | |
| 1900s | 365 | |
| 1910s | 2,434 | |
| 1920s | 3,525 | |
| 1930s | 2,073 | |
| 1940s | 1,453 | |
| 1950s | 912 | |
| 1960s | 601 | |
| 1970s | 365 | |
| 1980s | 407 | |
| 1990s | 635 | |
| 2000s | 1,241 | |
| 2010s | 997 | |
| 2020s | 494 |
In 1920, its biggest year
Wilmer was the 259th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Wilmer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Olenpeak 1922
- Elwoodpeak 1921
- Wilfredpeak 1920
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Ervinpeak 1921
- Wilburpeak 1918
- Hubertpeak 1924
- Elwinpeak 1923
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.