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How popular is the name Wilf?
Births per year, rank history and how many Wilfs are alive today.
Wilf (male) is an uncommon boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 822nd in 2025 with 39 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2018, when 59 babies were given the name, the 610th most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 901 in 2022 before climbing back to the 822nd place it holds today. Numbers have been stable in recent years.
The Wilf you are most likely to meet is around 8 years old. Half of all Wilfs born in England and Wales are between 6 and 17, and there are at least 810 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 Wilf - on average, only one in every 375 such rooms contains a Wilf.
How many babies are named Wilf each year?
Where does Wilf 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 Wilf most popular?
Wilf peaked in 2018, when 59 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Wilf?
At least 810 people named Wilf born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Wilf?
Most living Wilfs are between 6 and 17; the most common age is about 8.
Is Wilf becoming more or less popular?
Broadly steady in recent years.