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Wyatt

Pronounced /ˈwaɪ.ət/

Rank in 2024
#38
Born in 2024
6,581
Peak year
2017 · #25
Origin
Germanic

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 6,581 boys were named Wyatt, about 1 in every 261.
  • It peaked in 2017 with 9,726 babies, ranked #25.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 201,916 boys have been named Wyatt since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Wyatt per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
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    Gen X
  5. 0.4
    Millennials
  6. 2.6
    Gen Z
  7. 4.6
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 944 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Silent: 762 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,840 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,230 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Millennials: 12,143 babies, 0.40 per 1,000. Gen Z: 83,004 babies, 2.64 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 100,729 babies, 4.64 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Ultimately from the Old English personal name Wigheard, from wīg (“war”) + heard (“hard, brave”), later also used as a Middle English diminutive of the names Guy and William.

  • A male given name from the Germanic languages, modern transferred use of the surname.
Origin
Germanic
Say it
/ˈwaɪ.ət/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Wyatt, CC BY-SA 4.0.