Wright
Wright is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 25 births. Its best rank was 547th, in 1899.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 250.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191535 births
- Best rank
- #547in 1899
- Since 1880
- 1,615people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,615 boys have been named Wright in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 35 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 1938, and the 1920s alone account for 15%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wright | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 62 | |
| 1890s | 84 | |
| 1900s | 72 | |
| 1910s | 222 | |
| 1920s | 240 | |
| 1930s | 147 | |
| 1940s | 144 | |
| 1950s | 115 | |
| 1960s | 95 | |
| 1970s | 43 | |
| 1980s | 50 | |
| 1990s | 44 | |
| 2000s | 39 | |
| 2010s | 141 | |
| 2020s | 117 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Wright was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Wright
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Parkpeak 1923
- Percypeak 1921
- Roepeak 1916
- Dewittpeak 1921
- Charliepeak 1919
- Natpeak 1915
- Hendersonpeak 1918
- Archiepeak 1918
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.