Wilford
Wilford is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 333rd, in 1911.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1926276 births
- Best rank
- #333in 1911
- Since 1880
- 10,433people given the name
The story in the numbers
10,433 boys have been named Wilford in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 276 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 276 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1932, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 87 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wilford | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 170 | |
| 1890s | 191 | |
| 1900s | 246 | |
| 1910s | 1,698 | |
| 1920s | 2,492 | |
| 1930s | 1,689 | |
| 1940s | 1,346 | |
| 1950s | 1,071 | |
| 1960s | 598 | |
| 1970s | 390 | |
| 1980s | 228 | |
| 1990s | 127 | |
| 2000s | 72 | |
| 2010s | 86 | |
| 2020s | 29 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Wilford was the 349th 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 Wilford
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Miltonpeak 1920
- Bertrampeak 1923
- Howardpeak 1921
- Milfordpeak 1921
- Edmundpeak 1923
- Francispeak 1918
- Elwoodpeak 1921
- Wilfredpeak 1920
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.