Meaning and history
From a surname originally derived from a place name meaning “willow ford” in Old English.
20062006: 5 births, rank #12,055
2007: 5 births, rank #12,367
2008: 8 births, rank #9,019
2009: no US SSA record for this spelling
2010: 15 births, rank #5,741
20112011: 10 births, rank #7,502
2012: 7 births, rank #9,709
2013: 9 births, rank #8,118
2014: 11 births, rank #7,048
2015: 10 births, rank #7,491
20162016: 8 births, rank #8,816
2017: 10 births, rank #7,546
2018: 6 births, rank #10,760
2019: no US SSA record for this spelling
2020: 7 births, rank #9,554
20212021: no US SSA record for this spelling
2022: 7 births, rank #9,823
2023: 10 births, rank #7,738
2024: 5 births, rank #12,349
20252025: 9 births, rank #8,243
Wilford rose from #975 to #919 for boys between 1965 and 1968. Its highest annual birth count came in 1926, with 276 births.