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“Transferred use of the surname Wylie” — English origin
Boy's name · #1182 in the US (2025) · Heirloom
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. 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.
Around the world: about 1 in 14,000 boys in Canada (2024).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 13 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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.
Similar names: Wiley · Smith · Will · Ollie · Turner · Whit
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