Wysdom
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- WIZ-dum
- Origin
- English
- US rank, 2025
- #8,858 for girls
Wysdom is a girls' name of English origin, meaning “wisdom, good judgement”. In 2025 it ranked 8,858th for girls in the US (11 babies).
What does Wysdom mean?
English: respelling of the word wisdom
“wisdom, good judgement”
A virtue name respelling wisdom, from Old English wis 'wise' and -dom 'state, condition'.
Is Wysdom a girl's or a boy's name?
Wysdom is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 11 girls and 16 boys in the US.
How popular is Wysdom in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 8,858th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 11 about 1 in 150,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 11 girls in the US were named Wysdom, making it the 8,858th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2020, with 11 girls. It first appears in the records in 2019. 16 boys were also named Wysdom in 2025 (5,606th for boys).
2025 had more girls named Wysdom than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Wysdom in the US since 1880 were born between 2020 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 72 girls in the US were given Wysdom or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #2,103, up from #8,858 for this spelling alone.
- Wisdom 61
- Wysdom 11
Wysdom in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #8,858 |
| 2024 | 6 | #13,472 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 6 | #13,586 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,201 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,350 |
Names like Wysdom
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kyomi, Daisy, Olive, Tru, Miyori, Nora, Evie, Hallie, Winnie, Rumi, Wrenley, Jream
Other spellings of Wysdom
More English names
Lily, Evelyn, Hudson, Ivy, Harper, Grace, Violet, Willow, Poppy, Riley, Oakley, Mason, Cooper, Ruby, Hazel, Carter
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Wysdom: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/wysdom, updated 20 October 2026.