Wilder

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Wilder: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Wilder: Recorded since 2008, its highest recorded position is #577, reached in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
15times a registrar ranked it
18years from first to last
#577highest recorded position
3groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 2021–2025

How to read this chart

A rank is a position in one registrar's list for one year.
Ranks from different countries are separate scales, so compare shapes, not numbers.
A rise in rank can be a small change in births, especially far down a list.

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2021	#5581
2025	#4201

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in 11 of the 18 years from 2008 to 2025.

In 2025: #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland, #976 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 2008–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Year-by-year storyFirst recorded, most recent, each country and each decade

Popularity journey

First recorded2008
First recorded at #4432 among boys in England and Wales in 2008 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #4201 among girls in England and Wales, in 2025.
England and Wales · Girls

Wilder appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 11 years beginning in 2008, and has registered 198 births with the name.

Wilder across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Wilder's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#4432 (2008)	#800 (2024)	#976 (2025)	11 of 18	198 (2008–2025)	41 (2024)
England and Wales · Girls	#5581 (2021)	#4201 (2025)	#4201 (2025)	2 of 5	8 (2021–2025)	5 (2025)

Wilder by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Wilder in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
2000s	3	1 of 10	3
2010s	38	4 of 10	10
2020sbusiest	157	6 of 10	26

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names England and Wales has recorded the most births with →

Wilder appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Full data tableEvery published rank and count

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #577 in Republic of Ireland in 2025.

Wilder's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2025	England and Wales	female	#4201	5	High	Verified
2025	England and Wales	male	#976	31	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#800	41	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1071	27	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1314	20	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#5581	3	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1150	23	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1506	16	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#2445	8	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2734	7	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2804	7	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#4432	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#727	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Wilder is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Wilder, between 2008 and 2025, in 11 of those 18 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Each mark is a year the registrar recorded the name; the diamond is that registrar's highest position. Gaps can mean a year was not published, not that the name went unused.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
England and Wales	2008–2025	11	#800 in 2024
Scotland	2024	1	#727 in 2024
Republic of Ireland	2025	1	#577 in 2025

No registrar recorded it for 7 years after 2008; it appears again in 2016.

Names measured beside itNeighbours, comparisons, related names and shared trajectories

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 2008 and 2025, ranked in 11 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #577, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 41 births, registered in England and Wales in 2024.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 7 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2024, and 17 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Wilf · #610, 29y
Wilfie · #348, 11y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Salaar · #577, 16y
Elon · #572, 14y
Airah · #594, 11y
Azalea · #596, 16y

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 2000 and 2009.

Salaar · #577, 16y
Shaurya · #577, 21y
Timotei · #577, 16y
Toma · #577, 20y

Wilder was ranked #577 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 2025. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ameer#577
Angelo#577
Archer#577
Aren#577
Achim#676
Adil#676
Adnan#676
Affan#676

Wilder and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,576 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Wilder without appearing here.

Wilder moved ahead of

Willow
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2445 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1506 and #4702.
Anders
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1506 and #3937.
Gustav
In 2018 they stood at #2445 and #2259 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2019 that had become #1506 and #3937.
Isak
In 2017 they stood at #2734 and #2052 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2018 that had become #2445 and #4749.

Moved the opposite way to Wilder

Aaron
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 while Aaron went from #55 to #180.
Alan
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 while Alan went from #226 to #539.
Alex
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 while Alex went from #47 to #207.
Alexander
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 while Alexander went from #19 to #40.

Moved the same way as Wilder

Aksel
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 and Aksel from #3158 to #1798.
Albie
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 and Albie from #341 to #21.
Alfred
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 and Alfred from #129 to #76.
Archie
Between 2008 and 2025 in England and Wales · Boys, Wilder went from #4432 to #976 and Archie from #31 to #11.

What is known about Wilder

How to read this

How often it is registered: Official record; 3 official registrars, 2008–2025.
Meaning: Not established; Not researched yet.
Origin: Not established; Not researched yet.
Pronunciation: Not established; Not recorded yet.

A claim marked not established does not mean the name lacks a meaning or is not widely used — only that Namewise has not sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 2008 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #577 in Republic of Ireland in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Wilder

Wilder at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Wilder across 2 official records

Wilder by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Wilder appears in

Popularity data

Where Wilder is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Wilder

Wilder and the names beside it

Wilder moved ahead of

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What is known about Wilder

Wilder at a glance

Wilder across 2 official records

Wilder by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Wilder appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 2000s

Names published alongside Wilder

Wilder and the names beside it

Wilder moved ahead of

Moved the opposite way to Wilder

Moved the same way as Wilder