Wyatt is a boy's name of English origin meaning “war and hard, brave.” In 2024 it was given to 6,581 boys in the United States.
Wyatt at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
English & American
Meaning
“war and hard, brave”
Pronunciation
/ˈwaɪ.ət/
About the name Wyatt
Wyatt belongs to the English & American tradition. Its meaning — “war and hard, brave” — is the sense carried by its English roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Wyatt first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #25 in 2017, and in 2024 6,581 babies received the name — 201,916 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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