The name Wilder comes from an English surname meaning ‘wild’, ‘untamed’ and ‘uncontrolled’.
Wilder is a male first name. In some cases it's also given to girls.
The name Wilder isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Wilder ranks 562. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Wilder. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Wilder.
The name Wilder comes from an English surname meaning ‘wild’, ‘untamed’ and ‘uncontrolled’.
Wilder has long been... known as a given name, at least since the early 19th century.
Wilder is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Wilder cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #325 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2021. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Wilder, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Wilder seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wilder was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
952 babies were named Wilder in 2022 - that's 1 in 186,836 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Wilder ranked 335 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter W is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with a W, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, W is by no means the rarest initial. While J, A and D are the most common first letters of boys' names, X, U and Q are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With six letters, the name Wilder is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that since 1.5% of all boys’ names begin with a W, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a W, William is currently the most common.
If your name is Wilder and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Wilder, you can simply say:
Windmill
Igloo
Lion
Dinosaur
Elephant
Rocket
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wilder
Wilder
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
I
L
D
E
R
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
W
I
L
D
E
R
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Wilder sounds like this:
