Entry № 11527 · English origin

Wilder Wilder — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WIL-der /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Untamed (Wilder Cyrus + modern unisex word-name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "untamed (wilder cyrus + modern unisex word-name)".

Wilder is from the Old Germanic wild (untamed, wild) — a modern American word-name; also a surname carried by famous literary figures. Wilder Vaughan — celebrity baby name. The name reflects the broader American word-name trend.

Untamed (Wilder Cyrus + modern unisex word-name) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Wilder
Transliteration
Wilder
Pronunciation
/ ˈwaɪl.dər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wilder stands.

Wilder does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Wilders before her.

Real people
Laura Ingalls Wilder
American Little House author.
1867 – 1957
Billy Wilder
Austrian-American 6-time Oscar filmmaker.
1906 – 2002
Gene Wilder
American actor.
1933 – 2016
In fiction
Wilder
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Wilder.

The number behind Wilder.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wilder reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.