Wild

At the 2020 census, 8,181 Americans bore the surname Wild — 4,192nd out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 36,500.

By the numbers

People: 8,181
Rank: 4,192nd
How common: 1 in 36,500
Per 100,000: 2.7

Where the name comes from

Origin Middle English

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wild described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 90.7%
Hispanic or Latino 3.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 3.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 1.0%
Black, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.5%

Notable people called Wild

Paul Wild (1925–2014)Swiss astronomer
Vic Wild (born 1986)American-born Russian snowboarder
Jack Wild (1952–2006)British actor
Frank Wild (1873–1939)British Antarctica explorer
Kirsten Wild (born 1982)Dutch racing cyclist
Thiago Seyboth Wild (born 2000)Brazilian tennis player
Jonathan Wild (1683–1725)18th century English criminal
Earl Wild (1915–2010)American musician

People named Wild with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Surnames like Wild

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Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.