Wyly
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wyly is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Variant of Wiley.
- USUnited States1 in 638K(measured from records)
- GTGuatemala≈1 in 130K
- CUCuba≈1 in 233K
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
- 186 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 130K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Guatemala, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Wiley.
Sources 1
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wyly 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.
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 — Surname Frequency 2010. 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)
- Sam Wylyb. 1934USAmerican businessman
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 521 | #41,728 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 511 | #40,335 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 497 | #46,253 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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 Wyly mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Wiley. Recorded by Wiktionary.
- In which country does Wyly have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Wyly in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wyly.
- How common is the name Wyly?
- In the United States, the national register counted 521 people named Wyly in 2010, about 1 in 638 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wyly?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wylyThe 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, “Wyly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.