Wilburn · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Wilburn.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1880

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 123 recorded years as a table

Wilburn, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1880	145
1881	139
1882	185
1883	105
1884	114
1885	121
1886	99
1887	118
1888	141
1889	99
1890	153
1891	119
1892	90
1893	134
1894	95
1895	77
1896	117
1897	133
1898	130
1899	122
1900	153
1901	122
1902	155
1903	176
1904	133
1905	204
1906	150
1907	184
1908	194
1909	165
1910	221
1911	217
1912	207
1913	226
1914	203
1915	231
1916	254
1917	245
1918	261
1919	280
1920	253
1921	276
1922	227
1923	276
1924	251
1925	251
1926	285
1927	238
1928	233
1929	216
1930	231
1931	235
1932	211
1933	208
1934	222
1935	187
1936	184
1937	168
1938	193
1939	171
1940	159
1941	137
1942	106
1943	104
1944	106
1945	84
1946	83
1947	76
1948	83
1949	63
1950	47
1951	42
1952	51
1953	40
1954	43
1955	47
1956	39
1957	32
1958	33
1959	32
1960	26
1961	31
1962	30
1963	28
1964	34
1965	28
1966	28
1967	28
1968	28
1969	22
1970	17
1971	23
1972	20
1973	26
1974	20
1975	14
1976	22
1977	11
1978	14
1979	14
1980	15
1981	9
1982	3
1983	6
1984	8
1985	8
1986	9
1987	4
1988	6
1989	7
1990	3
1991	6
1992	5
1993	3
1994	3
1995	5
1997	3
1998	5
1999	3
2002	3
2004	3
2008	3
2022	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Wilburn isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2022: 5
Rank in 2022: #12,330
How rare: 1 in 349,201 boys
Since 1880: 10,324

Wilburn was last recorded in 2022. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1926, at 285 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Wilburn doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.