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Wright

#4,382 in 2025Boys' name

Craftsman

Wright has been given to 1,639 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #4,382 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1915, with 35 recorded.

Babies named Wright, 2025

1 in 138,000

Wright over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wright: meaning, origin, and history

Craftsman

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wright means

Wright means “craftsman”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,639 boys were recorded with the name Wright between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 35 in 1915; its best national rank was #547 in 1899.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #4,411 in 2020 to #4,382 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,654 in 2015 to #4,382 in 2025.

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 Wright?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 138,000
24 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 71,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,382
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
95,747 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wright 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 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wright. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wrights were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wright was born before 1939 — so the typical Wright is around 86 today.

Median birth year
1939
About 86 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
14.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
19.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
668
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 14.6% of all recorded uses (240).

Is Wright 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
−68
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+29
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,272
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.85×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
68.6%
Peak was 1915 (35)
Years since peak
110
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#547
1899

Spellings of Wright

Wright is not the most common spelling — Dwight is, with 96.8% against Wright's 2.0%.

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 Wright is used

Across 1910–2025, Wright was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 787,481 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Tennessee1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

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. Wright has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wright by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,382
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 29
Best rank ever
#547
1899
Peak year
1915
35 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,639
Count in 2025
24

Names similar to Wright

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

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Sibling names for Wright

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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