Wraith
#8,217 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wraith has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #8,217 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 10 recorded.
Babies named Wraith, 2025
1 in 332,000
Wraith 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Wraith?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 332,000
- 10 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 171,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #8,217
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 229,791 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wraith 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wraith. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wraiths were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wraith was born before 2014 — so the typical Wraith is around 11 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 50.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 48
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (24).
Is Wraith 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
- +2,649
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- 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 (10)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.4% average annual change
Spellings of Wraith
Wraith is not the most common spelling — Laith is, with 75.0% against Wraith's 1.00%.
Wraith around the world
Where Wraith 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.
- England & Wales2016–2017#4,812in 2017
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Wraith by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Wraith
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wraith
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.