Wylie

Meaning: Not established
Origin: English surname — Variant of Wiley

Boy's name · #1182 in the US (2025) · Vintage

72% boys · 28% girls — Wylie is also given to girls: 65 in 2025, about 28% in recent years. Wylie →

Popularity over time

Wylie is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1887, when it ranked #460. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 6,100 boys since 1880, ranked #1182 today.

Across the states

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Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 13 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Around the world

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#1,642 in Canada (2025) · #5,137 in England & Wales (2025) · #8,085 in Ecuador (2023) · #2,256 in Sweden (2022).

Famous Wylies

Wylie Dufresne — American chef (born 1970)
Wylie Watson — British actor (1889–1966)
Wylie Gustafson — American singer (born 1961)
Wylie Gelber — American musician & guitar maker, former bass guitarist of Dawes (born 1988)
Wylie Stateman — American sound designer (born 2000)

In stories & tradition

Wylie — Buffalo Dreams (TV series)

What Wylies become

Among 31 notable people named Wylie:

Sports figures appear 1.73× more often than among typical names — e.g. Wylie Cameron Grant, American tennis player (1879–1968).

Spellings & nicknames

Together with its spelling variant Wiley (#1226), Wylie would rank around #757 with about 340 births last year — the newborns split about 51/49 between Wylie and Wiley.

Similar names: Wiley · Smith · Will · Ollie · Turner · Whit

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