Wilks
#9,653 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wilks has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 2017. In 2025 it ranked #9,653 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Wilks, 2025
1 in 414,000
Wilks over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Wilks?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 414,000
- 8 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 213,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #9,653
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wilks sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wilks. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wilkss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wilks was born before 2020 — so the typical Wilks is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 70.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 20
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 70.0% of all recorded uses (14).
Is Wilks rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +2,281
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (8)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Wilks
Wilks is not the most common spelling — Miles is, with 35.9% against Wilks's <0.01%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Wilks by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Wilks
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wilks
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.