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Boy's name · #1226 in the US (2025) · Timeless
Wiley holds its lane: charted since 1880 and rarely far from where it stands today (#1226 in 2025). About 18,000 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 17 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
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#3,209 in Canada (2024).
It is also an American family name — about 49,000 people carried it as a surname in the 2010 census.
Among 48 notable people named Wiley:
Lawyers & judges appear 2.74× more often than among typical names — e.g. Wiley Rutledge, American Supreme Court justice (1894–1949).
Together with its spelling variant Wylie (#1182), Wiley would rank around #757 with about 340 births last year — the newborns split about 51/49 between Wylie and Wiley.
Similar names: Wylie · Perry · Will · Harley · Coy · Whit
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