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Boy's name · #673 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Wilson holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#673 in 2025). About 49,000 boys have carried it along the way. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 35 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Wilson ranks in other countries and regions.
#234 in Ecuador (2025) · #651 in Canada (2025) · #1,447 in Sweden (2025) · #1,705 in England & Wales (2025) · #2,151 in France (2025) · #619 in Scotland (2024) · #1,094 in Belgium (2023) · #3,506 in Austria (2022) · #5,031 in Italy (2022) · #468 in New Zealand (2019) · #358 in N. Ireland (2016) · #358 in Puerto Rico (2013) and 1 more.
It is also an American family name — about 802,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 763 notable people named Wilson:
Business leaders appear 1.66× more often than among typical names — e.g. Wilson Ruffin Abbott, Businessman and landowner in Toronto (c. 1801–1876).
Similar names: Forrest · Wilmer · Coy · Nelson · Wiley · Milton
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