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Wylie vs Wylma

American parents have registered 6,865 Wylies since 1880, against 542 Wylmas. Wylie is still ahead, with 240 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wylie against Wylma, 1880 to 2025 0 60 120 180 240 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wylie Wylma

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Wylie for 144 years and Wylma for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Wylie Wylma
Total US births 6,865542
Most in one year 24033
Babies in 2025 240under 5
Estimated living today 4,60060
Median age today 1684
Peak year 20251920
Best rank 1,176th boys1,375th girls
Rank in 2025 1,176thunranked
First recorded 18801899
Girls / boys 792 / 6,073542 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Wylmas alive today are over 84; half the Wylies are over 16. That is 68 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Wylie and Wylma.