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Wilton

#6,115 in 2025Boys' name

Surname transferred into given-name use

Wilton has been given to 8,694 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,115 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 208 recorded.

Babies named Wilton, 2025

1 in 221,000

Wilton over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wilton: meaning, origin, and history

Surname transferred into given-name use

surname transfer

What Wilton means

Wilton is a given name.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Wilton is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈwɪl.tən/ for Wilton.

The naming story behind Wilton

Wilton is a given name adopted from surname. This establishes the immediate naming route. A surname transfer is different from a direct translation of the modern given-name spelling; the family name may have its own earlier derivation.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,653 boys were recorded with the name Wilton between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 208 in 1924; its best national rank was #422 in 1924.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,011 in 2020 to #6,115 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,170 in 2015 to #6,115 in 2025.

In the United States, 41 girls were recorded with the name Wilton between 1919 and 1943. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1921; its best national rank was #3,661 in 1921.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Wilton?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 114,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#6,115
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wilton sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wilton. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wiltons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wilton was born before 1938 — so the typical Wilton is around 87 today.

Median birth year
1938
About 87 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
5.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
3,071
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.7% of all recorded uses (1,794).

Is Wilton 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
−475
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+896
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,945
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
7.2%
Peak was 1924 (208)
Years since peak
101
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#422
1924

Spellings of Wilton

Wilton is not the most common spelling — Colton is, with 20.5% against Wilton's 1.2%.

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.

Where Wilton is used

Across 1910–2025, Wilton was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 2,703 boys, against 1 in 27,788 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

037 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Louisiana1 in 2,703
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 5,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 6,667
  4. 4Virginia1 in 9,091
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 10,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 14,286
  7. 7Alabama1 in 16,667
  8. 8Texas1 in 25,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Wilton has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wilton around the world

Where Wilton ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1972–2005
    #4,869
    in 2005
  • South Australia
    1944–1986
    #460
    in 1986

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Wilton

People whose public names include Wilton, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Wilton by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#6,115
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 896
Best rank ever
#422
1924
Peak year
1924
208 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,653
Count in 2025
15

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,661
1921
Peak year
1921
9 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
1943
All-time count
41
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wilton

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

WilderWilberWilmerWillamWilfordWillemNewtonBartonSuttonBentonHiltonBostonJaxtonWillianWileyKeltonKentonWillyLaytonWilfredoWaltonWilsonDentonDaxton

Names with a curve like Wilton

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Wilton, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

OdisElroyOlenLymanHershelBurlWilfordFreemanWinfredHerschelLenardRolland

Sibling names for Wilton

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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