Wilber
given name · Latin script
Meaning: From a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a wild boar
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wilbeɾ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wilber is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Bolivia it is the 58th most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 707(inferred from the name graph)
- NINicaragua≈1 in 1.2K
- PEPeru≈1 in 1.5K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 239 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 707 (inferred from the name graph)
≈23,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
From a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a wild boar.
Sources 1
- Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history]
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wilber counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Wilber | 9 |
| PE Peru | #364 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | Wilber | 78 |
| SV El Salvador | #218 | ≈9,200 est. | ≈1 in 707 | — | Wilber | 39 |
| BO Bolivia | #58 | ≈6,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Wilber | 33 |
| CO Colombia | #818 | ≈5,900 est. | ≈1 in 8.3K | 5 | Wilber | 74 |
| US United States | — | 5,360 | 1 in 62K | 6.2K | Wilber | 239 |
| NI Nicaragua | #139 | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Wilber | 29 |
| CR Costa Rica | #172 | 2,237 | 1 in 2.3K | 2.2K | Wilber | 33 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; the co-datosgov-candidates register; TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Edward Wilber Berryb. 1875USAmerican paleobotanist (1875-1945)
- Bullet Roganb. 1893USnot in their usual nameAmerican Hall of Fame baseball player
- Wilber M. Bruckerb. 1894USGovernor of Michigan, United States Secretary of the Army (1894-1968)
- Wilber Morrisb. 1937USJazz musician, bassist (1937-2002)
- Wilber Marshallb. 1962USAmerican football player, College Football Hall of Fame
- Wilber Sánchezb. 1968CUCuban Olympic wrestler
- Mauricio Wrightb. 1970CRnot in their usual nameCosta Rican footballer and manager
- Wilber Sánchezb. 1979NINicaraguan footballer
- Wilber Panb. 1980USTaiwanese-American singer, actor and entrepreneur
- Wilber Renteríab. 1992COassociation football player
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.3K | #3,742 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names | — | 2.2K | #327 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1919 | 162 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1924 | 160 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 34 | #3,742 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 5 | — |
| CO Colombia | Colombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co) | — | 5 | #116 |
| CR Costa Rica | TSE — Consulta de nombres (Padrón Nacional Electoral name enumeration) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wilber mean, and where does it come from?
- From a medieval nickname for someone thought to resemble a wild boar. Recorded by Encyclopedia of surnames [the complete companion to tracing your names history].
- In which country does Wilber have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 23 thousand people named Wilber in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wilber.
- How do you pronounce Wilber?
- A machine transcription gives /wilbeɾ/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Wilber a male or female name?
- Wilber is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- How common is the name Wilber?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,360 people named Wilber in 2020, about 1 in 62 thousand residents.
- How common is Wilber compared with other names?
- In Bolivia, Wilber is the 58th most common given name of 14,891 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wilberThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wilber” — the 58th most common given name in Bolivia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.