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Wyman

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Wyman has been given to 3,066 babies in the U.S. since 1898. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1922, with 63 recorded.

Babies named Wyman, 2024

1 in 478,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wyman: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wyman means

Wyman is a given name.

The naming story behind Wyman

Wikidata records Wyman as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q110377734, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,066 boys were recorded with the name Wyman between 1898 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 63 in 1922; its best national rank was #706 in 1911.

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 Wyman?

Wyman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 478,000
7 of 3,342,801 births
Among boys only
1 in 246,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
331,009 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wyman 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 2024 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 331,009 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wyman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wymans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wyman was born before 1947 — so the typical Wyman is around 78 today.

Median birth year
1947
About 78 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
15.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,440
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 15.6% of all recorded uses (479).

Is Wyman 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1922 (63)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#706
1911

Spellings of Wyman

Wyman is not the most common spelling — Ryan is, with 59.0% against Wyman's 0.19%.

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 Wyman is used

Across 1910–2025, Wyman was most concentrated in South Carolina — about 1 in 12,500 boys, against 1 in 151,366 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1South Carolina1 in 12,500
  2. 2Georgia1 in 20,000
  3. 3Alabama1 in 33,333
  4. 4California1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Minnesota1 in —
  8. 8Missouri1 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. Wyman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Wyman

People whose public names include Wyman, 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.

Wyman by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#706
1911
Peak year
1922
63 that year
First recorded
1898
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
3,066
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wyman

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

AymanOsmanArmanUsmanSalmanAmanLymanImanFermanRahmanKalmanTillmanLuqmanNamanHarmanColmanBowmanCaymanHymanGermanYamanWaymanAimanSoloman

Names with a curve like Wyman

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

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Sibling names for Wyman

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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