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How popular is the name Wilbur?
Births per year, rank history and how many Wilburs are alive today.
Wilbur (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 578th in 2025 with 67 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2019, when 95 babies were given the name, the 429th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 593 in 2023 before climbing back to the 578th place it holds today. Numbers have been falling in recent years.
The Wilbur you are most likely to meet is around 6 years old. Half of all Wilburs born in England and Wales are between 4 and 11, and there are at least 1,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Wilbur - on average, only one in every 303 such rooms contains a Wilbur.
How many babies are named Wilbur each year?
Where does Wilbur rank among boys' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Wilbur most popular?
Wilbur peaked in 2019, when 95 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Wilbur?
At least 1,000 people named Wilbur born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Wilbur?
Most living Wilburs are between 4 and 11; the most common age is about 6.
Is Wilbur becoming more or less popular?
Declining: numbers have been falling in recent years.