Name: Wilbur
Gender: Male
Usage: Wilbur is a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name.
People having the name Wilbur are in general originating from Germany, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Wilbur is: Will, Resolute or brilliant.
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Numerology of the first name Wilbur: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 4. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: traditional, organized, self-disciplined, steady, logical, practical, helpful, reliable.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Practical, Dependable
Ruling planet: Uranus
Colors: Blue, Gray
Gemstones: Sapphire
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The name Wilbur is ranked on the 6,435th position of the most used names. It means that this name is commonly used.
We estimate that there are at least 44100 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.001% of the population. The name Wilbur has six characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Wilbur for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
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History and Origin
Wilbur is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include:
Surname:
- Crane Wilbur (1886-1973), American writer, actor and director of stage, radio and screen
- Cornelia B. Wilbur (1908–1992), American psychiatrist
- Curtis D. Wilbur (1867-1954), US Secretary of the Navy and Chief Justice of California
- George P. Wilbur, actor and stuntman
- Jay Wilbur (1898-1970), British bandleader
- John Wilbur (disambiguation)
- Ray Lyman Wilbur (1875-1945), American doctor, president of Stanford University and United States Secretary of the Interior
- Richard Wilbur (born 1921), United States Poet Laureate and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
- Todd Wilbur, American cookbook author
- William Wilbur, New York politician
- William H. Wilbur (1888–1979), US Army brigadier general
Given name:
- Wilbur Clark (1908-1965), American businessman and owner of hotels and casinos
- Wilbur J. Cohen (1913-1987), American social scientist and, as a civil servant, one of the key architects of the welfare state
- Wilbur Cooper (1892-1973), Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wilbur Lucius Cross (1862-1948), American educator and Governor of Connecticut
- Wilbur Good (1885-1963), Major League Baseball player
- Wilbur Jackson (born 1951), American collegiate and National Football League running back
- Wilbur MacDonald (born 1933), Canadian politician
- Wilbur Mills (1909-1992), influential member of the United States House of Representatives from Arkansas
- Wilbur Ross (born 1937), American investor known for restructuring failed companies
- Wilbur Schramm (1907-1987), American journalist and academic sometimes called the "father of communication studies"
- Wilbur Shaw (1902–1954), American racing driver
- Wilbur Sweatman (1882–1961), African-American ragtime and dixieland jazz composer, bandleader and clarinetist
- Wilbur Ware (1923–1979), American jazz double-bassist
- Wilbur Wood (born 1941), former Major League Baseball pitcher
- Wilbur Wright (1867–1912), one of the two brothers generally credited with inventing the first successful airplane
Fictional characters:
- Wilbur, the pig who is the main character in the book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
- Wilbur the Wildcat, the athletic mascot of the University of Arizona
- Wilbur Grey, a character portrayed by Lou Costello in Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein.
- Wilbur Robinson, a character from Disney's Meet the Robinsons
English: transferred use of a comparatively rare surname, which is now a fairly common given name, especially in America. The surname probably derives from a medieval female name composed of the Old English elements will will, desire + burh fortress.
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