Wilde

Wilde is the 3,325th most common surname in the United States, shared by 10,612 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 28,200.

By the numbers

People: 10,612
Rank: 3,325th
How common: 1 in 28,200
Per 100,000: 3.6

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 Wilde described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 91.9%
Hispanic or Latino 3.5%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.9%
Black, not Hispanic 0.6%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Wilde

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete
Olivia Wilde (born 1984)American actress and film director
Kim Wilde (born 1960)English pop singer
Cornel Wilde (1912–1989)Hungarian-American actor and film director
Gabriella Wilde (born 1989)British actress
Filip De Wilde (born 1964)Belgian footballer
Jane Wilde (1821–1896)Irish poet and writer, editor
Ted Wilde (1889–1929)American film director, screenwriter

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

Surnames like Wilde

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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.