Wyatt
Wyatt is ranked 38th among boys in 2024 (6,581 births). Its best rank was 25th, in 2017.
- Rank in 2024
- #38up 8 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,5810.38% of boys
- Peak year
- 20179,726 births
- Best rank
- #25in 2017
- Since 1880
- 203,133people given the name
The story in the numbers
201,916 boys have been named Wyatt in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2017, with 9,726 births — 0.53% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 39 → 38).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 43%. It has spent 122 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 21 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,217 girls have also been given it, 0.60% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wyatt | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 123 | |
| 1890s | 127 | |
| 1900s | 114 | |
| 1910s | 434 | |
| 1920s | 515 | |
| 1930s | 377 | |
| 1940s | 472 | |
| 1950s | 1,254 | |
| 1960s | 765 | |
| 1970s | 1,626 | |
| 1980s | 2,804 | |
| 1990s | 17,936 | |
| 2000s | 51,344 | |
| 2010s | 87,734 | |
| 2020s | 36,291 |
In 2017, its biggest year
Wyatt was the 25th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2017 were Liam, Noah, William, James and Logan. See all of 2017.
Names that rose and fell with Wyatt
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Zainepeak 2015
- Zakariapeak 2017
- Tenzinpeak 2014
- Zephaniahpeak 2019
- Braxtonpeak 2014
- Josiahpeak 2017
- Fischerpeak 2015
- Oskarpeak 2016
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.