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The name Wiley is of English origin, and means water meadow. The table below indicates the number of times the name Wiley has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Wiley**
Use of the Name Wiley for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
13,958	2,353	0	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Wiley has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Wiley last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1974, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Wiley**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	170	78
1881	163	76
1882	150	92
1883	173	72
1884	178	80
1885	175	76
1886	247	49
1887	189	66
1888	220	64
1889	185	73
1890	215	60
1891	226	51
1892	213	69
1893	251	50
1894	214	63
1895	226	61
1896	232	62
1897	222	59
1898	248	51
1899	237	50
1900	265	61
1901	214	64
1902	247	57
1903	255	52
1904	242	61
1905	276	52
1906	303	46
1907	276	58
1908	252	71
1909	274	68
1910	288	73
1911	321	73
1912	367	113
1913	327	156
1914	399	143
1915	369	211
1916	425	177
1917	350	256
1918	388	239
1919	381	234
1920	369	265
1921	340	303
1922	355	278
1923	350	287
1924	394	238
1925	379	249
1926	366	255
1927	365	254
1928	352	263
1929	381	230
1930	395	213
1931	373	223
1932	366	233
1933	371	214
1934	365	225
1935	324	287
1936	342	253
1937	366	221
1938	365	235
1939	391	209
1940	389	215
1941	389	220
1942	431	205
1943	411	226
1944	388	241
1945	429	191
1946	475	183
1947	441	231
1948	417	258
1949	462	204
1950	469	204
1951	506	179
1952	506	189
1953	505	192
1954	574	165
1955	563	171
1956	565	180
1957	596	166
1958	671	128
1959	617	158
1960	671	136
1961	706	118
1962	727	112
1963	696	125
1964	714	118
1965	664	125
1966	705	111
1967	690	117
1968	766	94
1969	813	91
1970	833	94
1971	833	95
1972	909	78
1973	984	68
1974	997	68
Totals:		13,958		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Wiley as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are somewhat lower than actual counts because the name Wiley appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 95 times during the last 125 years.

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