Waneta
Waneta was last recorded in 2022, when 6 babies were given it; 2,466 Americans have been recorded with it between 1895 and 2022 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Waneta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Waneta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,183, in 2022; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
101 babies in 1923, the peak
Waneta peaked in 1923, when 101 girls were given it, #726 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6 | #15,183 | 3.7 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,325 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 5 | #19,066 | 2.7 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,719 | 6.9 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,543 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #15,186 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,488 | 2.7 |
| 1984 | 5 | #12,137 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,481 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 6 | #10,364 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 12 | #5,741 | 7.5 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,628 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,471 | 6.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,741 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 8 | #6,650 | 5.5 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,542 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,990 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,958 | 4.7 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,630 | 4.9 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,828 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,548 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,278 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,089 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 12 | #4,009 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 10 | #4,526 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,599 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,915 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,293 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,082 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,692 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,316 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,219 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 15 | #3,015 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,513 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,324 | 11.3 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,708 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,044 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 19 | #2,336 | 11.1 |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,124 | 13.0 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,764 | 8.5 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,089 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,056 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,657 | 19.6 |
| 1943 | 29 | #1,589 | 20.8 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,588 | 20.7 |
| 1941 | 42 | #1,165 | 34.8 |
| 1940 | 32 | #1,346 | 28.0 |
| 1939 | 34 | #1,290 | 31.0 |
| 1938 | 36 | #1,229 | 32.6 |
| 1937 | 48 | #1,034 | 45.1 |
| 1936 | 46 | #1,037 | 44.2 |
| 1935 | 49 | #994 | 46.7 |
| 1934 | 49 | #992 | 46.9 |
| 1933 | 57 | #902 | 56.6 |
| 1932 | 65 | #868 | 60.9 |
| 1931 | 76 | #775 | 71.4 |
| 1930 | 73 | #839 | 64.8 |
| 1929 | 52 | #1,013 | 46.6 |
| 1928 | 66 | #917 | 57.2 |
| 1927 | 71 | #892 | 59.5 |
| 1926 | 77 | #842 | 65.0 |
| 1925 | 76 | #860 | 62.4 |
| 1924 | 87 | #803 | 69.7 |
| 1923 | 101 | #726 | 83.7 |
| 1922 | 81 | #817 | 67.4 |
| 1921 | 95 | #752 | 77.0 |
| 1920 | 87 | #778 | 72.6 |
| 1919 | 76 | #811 | 67.2 |
| 1918 | 90 | #754 | 77.7 |
| 1917 | 61 | #895 | 56.4 |
| 1916 | 66 | #839 | 63.2 |
| 1915 | 65 | #819 | 66.1 |
| 1914 | 40 | #941 | 52.5 |
| 1913 | 31 | #978 | 49.6 |
| 1912 | 23 | #1,116 | 41.2 |
| 1911 | 14 | #1,296 | 33.5 |
| 1910 | 14 | #1,265 | 35.3 |
| 1908 | 7 | #1,855 | 20.9 |
| 1907 | 13 | #1,139 | 40.8 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,719 | 23.7 |
| 1904 | 5 | #2,159 | 18.2 |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,435 | 30.5 |
| 1897 | 5 | #1,792 | 21.3 |
| 1895 | 6 | #1,589 | 25.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Waneta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Waneta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Waneta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Waneta, and how old are they?
An estimated 564 Americans named Waneta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (23% of everyone recorded); the median is 74 years old and half are between 61 and 85. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 830 people named Waneta (829 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 780 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Waneta born?
The states with the most babies named Waneta are Indiana, Ohio and Michigan, with 61% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Indiana is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Indiana | 342 | not ranked | 5.5× |
| Ohio | 196 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Michigan | 102 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Illinois | 88 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Kansas | 87 | not ranked | 2.5× |
| Missouri | 84 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| West Virginia | 78 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| Iowa | 35 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Waneta is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Waneta is most over-represented in Indiana: since 1910 it was given 5.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Waneta with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,236 babies since 1880, Waneta is the second most given (30% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Waneta
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Waneta and names like it
- Compare Waneta and WanitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWaneta peaked in 1923.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Waneta since 1910.
- The top names of 1923The year the most babies were named Waneta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Waneta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.