Boy Names of Wise theme

Wise names for baby boys, related also with clever, bright, talented, skillful, venerable, brilliant, sharp, gift, inheritance, and intelligent, with 379 entries. Wisdom is perhaps one of the most desirable qualities that parents hope for their children to acquire. Tradition holds the ancient King Solomon as one of the wisest kings who had ever lived and the person who inspired the simile ‘as wise as Solomon’. For that reason, wisdom names also hold connotations of kingship and royalty.

Wise names are very popular baby names for boys. At the height of their usage in 1928, 9.793% of baby boys were given Wise names. There were 33 Wise names ranked within the top 1000 baby names then. Wise names have since experienced a decline in frequency, but are nonetheless used on a very heavy scale now. In 2018, 24 Wise names listed among the top 1000, with a combined usage of 4.099%. Within all Wise names, the English, French, German, Scandinavian, and Spanish Sebastian was the most commonly used, with a ranking of #18 and a usage of 0.5212%.