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Wise

Boy · WYZE · English

Wise is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “wise, learned”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).

What does Wise mean?

English: English word, also a surname

“wise, learned”

From the English word wise, which also became a surname for a person thought learned or sensible.

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WYZE

Is Wise a girl's or a boy's name?

Wise is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Wise in the US?

Rank in 2025
#7,675among boys
Babies in 2025
10about 1 in 170,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Wise, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,447th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 16 boys. It first appears in the records in 1916.

Half of all the boys named Wise in the US since 1880 were born between 2013 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.

1916Busiest: 16 in 20202025
Wise in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
202510#7,675
202411#7,252
20239#8,250
202210#7,762
20218#8,820
202016#5,447
201910#7,638
20188#8,813
20176#10,770
20160–
20156#10,638
20149#8,124
20135#12,129
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19915#8,228
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19400–
19390–
19380–
19370–
19360–
19350–
19340–
19330–
19325#3,774
19310–
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19290–
19280–
19270–
19260–
19250–
19240–
19235#4,236
19220–
19216#3,867
19200–
19190–
19185#4,178
19170–
19167#3,176

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