Meaning and history
Wright is an English given name transferred from an occupational surname. The surname comes from Old English wryhta or wyrhta, meaning “worker,” “craftsman,” or “maker,” preserved in compounds such as shipwright and wheelwright. As a first name it carries an association with skilled making rather than a separate personal-name root. A notable bearer was American writer and photographer Wright Morris, who won the National Book Award for The Field of Vision.
20062006: 10 births, rank #7,427
2007: no US SSA record for this spelling
2008: 8 births, rank #9,019
2009: 12 births, rank #6,802
2010: 6 births, rank #10,766
20112011: 11 births, rank #7,009
2012: 16 births, rank #5,482
2013: 13 births, rank #6,241
2014: 8 births, rank #8,781
2015: 13 births, rank #6,324
20162016: 14 births, rank #6,053
2017: 29 births, rank #3,678
2018: 15 births, rank #5,770
2019: 16 births, rank #5,555
2020: 23 births, rank #4,275
20212021: 16 births, rank #5,562
2022: 28 births, rank #3,879
2023: 25 births, rank #4,220
2024: 25 births, rank #4,200
20252025: 24 births, rank #4,249
Wright moved from #814 to #839 for boys between 1907 and 1909. Its highest annual birth count came in 1899, with 14 births.