Wilder

29,512 people in the United States were counted with the surname Wilder in the 2020 census, making it the 1,170th most common in the country. That is about one person in 10,100.

By the numbers

People: 29,512
Rank: 1,170th
How common: 1 in 10,100
Per 100,000: 9.9

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 65.6%
Black, not Hispanic 25.4%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 4.6%
Hispanic or Latino 3.1%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.7%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.6%

Notable people called Wilder

Gene Wilder (1933–2016)American actor
Billy Wilder (1906–2002)Austrian and American filmmaker
Thornton Wilder (1897–1975)American playwright and novelist
Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867–1957)American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
Deontay Wilder (born 1985)American boxer
Alan Wilder (born 1959)English musician
Chris Wilder (born 1967)English association football manager and former player
Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1968)American journalist

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

Surnames like Wilder

Also a first name

Wilder has been given to 8,835 American babies as a first name since 1914, peaking in 2021. See it as a given name.

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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.