How popular is the baby name Wyatt in the United States right now? How popular was it historically? Use the popularity graph and data table below to find out! Plus, see all the blog posts that mention the name Wyatt.
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While we wait for the latest batch of U.S. baby name data from the SSA, let’s check out Wyoming’s 2023 rankings (which were released about a week ago).
Last year, the Equality State — the 10th-largest state in terms of area, but the 50th-largest in terms of population — welcomed 5,989 babies.
What were the top names among these babies? Evelyn and Henry, according to the Wyoming Department of Health.
Here are Wyoming’s top 10 girl names and top 10 boy names of 2023:
Girl names
Evelyn
Amelia
Olivia
Harper
Charlotte
Hazel
Eleanor
Lainey
Oakley
Aurora
Boy names
Henry
Jack (tie)
Wyatt (tie)
Elijah
Carter
Asher
Theodore
Benjamin
Waylon
Noah
Lainey was likely popularized by country singer Lainey Wilson. We’ll have to keep an eye on that one in the national rankings.
In 2022, Wyoming’s top names were Charlotte and Noah.
P.S. We’ve also seen official 2023 rankings for Virginia, Sonoma County (California), Knox County (Illinois), Johnston County (North Carolina), Boston (Massachusetts), and Nantucket (also Massachusetts) — plus rankings based on provisional data for Rhode Island, Mississippi, New Mexico, Arizona, and Houston (Texas).
Xolotl refers to the “divine force of lightning and death” (among other things) in Nahuatl.
Zantedechia is one letter away from Zantedeschia, the name of a genus of flowering plants. (The calla lily is a member of this genus.) The genus was named after Italian physician/botanist Giovanni Zantedeschi (1773-1846).
Finally, here are Sonoma’s 2022 rankings, if you’d like to compare last year to the year before.
In November of 1900, Republican William McKinley defeated Democrat William Jennings Bryan in the U.S. presidential election.
In September of 1901, less than a year later, President McKinley was assassinated and succeeded by his vice president, Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt’s second son, Kermit, had turned 11 a month before the election, and was still 11 when his father became president of the United States.
His rare first name, Kermit, debuted in the U.S. baby name data in 1900 and saw a sizeable boost in usage the very next year. In fact, Kermit was the fastest-rising baby name of 1901 (in terms of relative increase).
1903: 12 baby boys named Kermit [rank: 679th]
1902: 16 baby boys named Kermit [rank: 547th]
1901: 17 baby boys named Kermit [rank: 481st]
1900: 6 baby boys named Kermit
1899: unlisted
1898: unlisted
The earliest decades of the SSA data tend to under-count actual usage, so, for comparison, here’s data from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for the same period of time:
1903: 107 people with the first name Kermit
1902: 118 people with the first name Kermit
1901: 64 people with the first name Kermit
1900: 12 people with the first name Kermit
1899: 1 person
1898: 2 people
But there’s more to the story than that, because later spikes in the name’s usage also seem to line up with events in Kermit Roosevelt’s life.
Usage of the baby name Kermit (SSA data)
From March 1909 to June 1910, Kermit accompanied his father on an expedition to Africa. Various photos of Kermit (including the one below) ran in the newspapers both before and during the trip. The SSA data indicates that the name ranked 175th and 193rd, respectively, in 1909 and 1910 — the only two times it’s ever placed inside the boys’ top 200.
Newspaper photo of Kermit (Sept. 1908)
In June of 1914, Kermit married Belle Wyatt Willard, the daughter of the U.S. Ambassador to Spain. (Kermit and his father had also just returned from a perilous five-month trip to the Amazon basin, but the newspapers didn’t seem as interested in the second expedition as they were in the wedding.) The same year, the name nearly doubled in usage.
In July of 1918, Kermit’s youngest brother, Quentin, was killed in combat during WWI. Months later, in January of 1919, his famous father died suddenly in his sleep. The name Kermit saw a steep rise in usage in 1918, followed by peak usage (in terms of absolute numbers of babies) in 1919.
(Incidentally, dozens of baby boys were named either “Quentin Kermit” or, more often, “Kermit Quentin” during the first decades of the 1900s. One example: Kermit Quentin Turner, born in Oklahoma in 1919.)
For seven months during 1925, Kermit and his eldest brother, Ted, went on an expedition to the Himalayas. The newspapers (again) seemed only moderately interested in the trip, but the name Kermit did see slightly higher usage in the mid-1920s.
And it saw another uptick in 1943, the year that Kermit Roosevelt — who, during the 1930s, had been hit hard by the Great Depression and also became an alcoholic — committed suicide in Alaska after being medically discharged from the U.S. Army.
Kermit’s name — which was also the middle name of his mother, Edith Kermit Carow — ultimately honored Edith’s uncle, merchant and shipowner Robert Kermit.
The surname Kermit is an Anglicized form of the Manx surname Kermode, which in turn is a form of the Irish surname Mac Diarmada. The Irish surname is derived from the Irish personal name Diarmaid, which is of unknown etymology.
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