Primarily a boy's name · 99% boys
Wyatt is a male given name, derived from the Norman surname Guyot, derived from "widu", Proto-Germanic for "wood".
From Wikipedia
In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Wyatt yields these three numbers — a playful read on the name's character.
Wyatt peaked in 2017 on both fronts — 9,726 births and its best-ever rank, #25 — then eased to #38 by 2024 with 6,581 births, a 26% ten-year decline that's milder than Carter's or Jackson's.
Recorded since 1880, the name spent well over a century in minor use before its 2010s rise.
Wyatt Earp anchors the name firmly in 19th-century American frontier history, a specific and singular reference point that hardly any other name in this batch carries — most, like Carter or Maverick, have either no dominant historical namesake or several competing ones rather than one figure this closely associated with the name itself.
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Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.
| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880 | 15 | #481 |
| 1881 | 14 | #486 |
| 1882 | 12 | #575 |
| 1883 | 6 | #889 |
| 1884 | 13 | #546 |
| 1885 | 9 | #699 |
| 1886 | 12 | #577 |
| 1887 | 11 | #582 |
| 1888 | 16 | #503 |
| 1889 | 15 | #497 |
| 1890 | 12 | #602 |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,126 |
| 1892 | 11 | #687 |
| 1893 | 14 | #537 |
| 1894 | 18 | #479 |
| 1895 | 11 | #682 |
| 1896 | 20 | #461 |
| 1897 | 10 | #724 |
| 1898 | 13 | #634 |
| 1899 | 13 | #582 |
| 1900 | 14 | #698 |
| 1901 | 12 | #636 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,135 |
| 1903 | 11 | #733 |
| 1904 | 6 | #1,201 |
| 1905 | 11 | #785 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,003 |
| 1907 | 14 | #734 |
| 1908 | 12 | #823 |
| 1909 | 20 | #614 |
| 1910 | 14 | #858 |
| 1911 | 16 | #855 |
| 1912 | 29 | #834 |
| 1913 | 35 | #817 |
| 1914 | 43 | #818 |
| 1915 | 54 | #845 |
| 1916 | 46 | #951 |
| 1917 | 48 | #933 |
| 1918 | 65 | #817 |
| 1919 | 84 | #681 |
| 1920 | 51 | #973 |
| 1921 | 49 | #1,009 |
| 1922 | 49 | #1,022 |
| 1923 | 59 | #895 |
| 1924 | 66 | #848 |
| 1925 | 49 | #983 |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,091 |
| 1927 | 44 | #1,079 |
| 1928 | 63 | #834 |
| 1929 | 42 | #1,077 |
| 1930 | 44 | #1,052 |
| 1931 | 36 | #1,144 |
| 1932 | 47 | #961 |
| 1933 | 32 | #1,180 |
| 1934 | 35 | #1,132 |
| 1935 | 30 | #1,246 |
| 1936 | 38 | #1,049 |
| 1937 | 37 | #1,073 |
| 1938 | 35 | #1,108 |
| 1939 | 43 | #975 |
| 1940 | 46 | #951 |
| 1941 | 42 | #1,003 |
| 1942 | 50 | #946 |
| 1943 | 50 | #954 |
| 1944 | 53 | #877 |
| 1945 | 39 | #1,038 |
| 1946 | 44 | #1,043 |
| 1947 | 46 | #1,080 |
| 1948 | 53 | #962 |
| 1949 | 49 | #1,007 |
| 1950 | 50 | #988 |
| 1951 | 46 | #1,069 |
| 1952 | 56 | #964 |
| 1953 | 64 | #902 |
| 1954 | 57 | #995 |
| 1955 | 124 | #659 |
| 1956 | 258 | #469 |
| 1957 | 278 | #463 |
| 1958 | 184 | #571 |
| 1959 | 137 | #659 |
| 1960 | 104 | #759 |
| 1961 | 80 | #857 |
| 1962 | 72 | #901 |
| 1963 | 67 | #919 |
| 1964 | 71 | #906 |
| 1965 | 78 | #836 |
| 1966 | 58 | #960 |
| 1967 | 57 | #967 |
| 1968 | 81 | #824 |
| 1969 | 97 | #788 |
| 1970 | 123 | #746 |
| 1971 | 145 | #689 |
| 1972 | 150 | #655 |
| 1973 | 139 | #677 |
| 1974 | 148 | #668 |
| 1975 | 179 | #610 |
| 1976 | 183 | #602 |
| 1977 | 177 | #638 |
| 1978 | 189 | #608 |
| 1979 | 193 | #617 |
| 1980 | 233 | #567 |
| 1981 | 223 | #572 |
| 1982 | 206 | #600 |
| 1983 | 208 | #591 |
| 1984 | 207 | #588 |
| 1985 | 210 | #604 |
| 1986 | 294 | #518 |
| 1987 | 364 | #465 |
| 1988 | 379 | #470 |
| 1989 | 480 | #429 |
| 1990 | 571 | #404 |
| 1991 | 569 | #400 |
| 1992 | 645 | #366 |
| 1993 | 628 | #375 |
| 1994 | 1,544 | #197 |
| 1995 | 2,826 | #128 |
| 1996 | 2,789 | #134 |
| 1997 | 2,747 | #137 |
| 1998 | 2,722 | #137 |
| 1999 | 2,895 | #131 |
| 2000 | 3,410 | #111 |
| 2001 | 3,601 | #107 |
| 2002 | 3,232 | #121 |
| 2003 | 3,699 | #109 |
| 2004 | 4,974 | #90 |
| 2005 | 5,356 | #81 |
| 2006 | 5,835 | #82 |
| 2007 | 6,522 | #69 |
| 2008 | 7,312 | #62 |
| 2009 | 7,403 | #60 |
| 2010 | 7,377 | #57 |
| 2011 | 7,686 | #48 |
| 2012 | 8,233 | #41 |
| 2013 | 8,567 | #42 |
| 2014 | 8,894 | #39 |
| 2015 | 9,656 | #34 |
| 2016 | 9,579 | #33 |
| 2017 | 9,726 | #25 |
| 2018 | 9,181 | #27 |
| 2019 | 8,835 | #29 |
| 2020 | 8,220 | #29 |
| 2021 | 8,046 | #29 |
| 2022 | 7,175 | #38 |
| 2023 | 6,269 | #46 |
| 2024 | 6,581 | #38 |
