Wiley

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Wiley is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 180 births. Its best rank was 150th, in 1882.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1800.01% of boys
Peak year: 1921304 births
Best rank: #150in 1882
Since 1880: 18,234people given the name

Babies named Wiley, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

18,234 boys have been named Wiley in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1921, with 304 births.

It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1942, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 94 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Wiley
1880s	726
1890s	576
1900s	590
1910s	1,676
1920s	2,621
1930s	2,320
1940s	2,179
1950s	1,735
1960s	1,147
1970s	700
1980s	528
1990s	534
2000s	795
2010s	1,199
2020s	908

In 1921, its biggest year

Wiley was the 340th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1921 were John, Robert, William, James and Charles. See all of 1921.

Names that rose and fell with Wiley

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

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.