Wilburn
Wilburn is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 318th, in 1926.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1926317 births
- Best rank
- #318in 1926
- Since 1880
- 10,324people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,324 boys have been named Wilburn in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 317 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 317 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 27%. It has spent 83 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wilburn | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 139 | |
| 1890s | 133 | |
| 1900s | 224 | |
| 1910s | 1,618 | |
| 1920s | 2,761 | |
| 1930s | 2,121 | |
| 1940s | 1,434 | |
| 1950s | 816 | |
| 1960s | 546 | |
| 1970s | 300 | |
| 1980s | 140 | |
| 1990s | 69 | |
| 2000s | 18 | |
| 2020s | 5 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Wilburn was the 318th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Wilburn
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rollandpeak 1928
- Elgiepeak 1918
- Merlepeak 1925
- Burtonpeak 1925
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Wiltonpeak 1924
- Bernardpeak 1924
- Elwoodpeak 1921
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.