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 [ 2 syll. wi-(l)bur, wil-b-ur ] The boy name Wilbur is pronounced as WIHLBer KEY. Wilbur is mainly used in English and its language of origin is Germanic. Two-element name from the words 'wil' and 'burg' which are of the meanings will, desire and protection, fortress, castle respectively. The first name is derived from the relatively rare surname. The German name Wilburg and the English name Wilburn are forms of the name. The short form Will (English), the pet forms Willie (English) and Willy (English), and the spelling variant Wilber (English) are other forms of Wilbur. Wilbur is rare as a baby boy name. At the modest peak of its usage in 1913, 0.195% of baby boys were named Wilbur. It had a ranking of #91 then. The baby name has markedly slipped in popularity since then, and is today used on an infrequent scale. Out of the family of boy names directly related to Wilbur, the English and Scandinavian Willie was the most widely used in 2008. A baby name that sounds like Wilbur is the English name Wilber. A famous person named Wilbur is Inventor Wilbur Wright, born 16 April 1867 - 30 May 1912, Millville, Indiana. KEY: Pronunciation for Wilbur: W as in "we (W.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; L as in "lee (L.IY)" ; B as in "be (B.IY)" ; ER as in "hurt (HH.ER.T)"   |
