Wanetta
Wanetta was last recorded in 1982, when 7 babies were given it; 1,114 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1982 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wanetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wanetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,214, in 1982; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
38 babies in 1922, the peak
Wanetta peaked in 1922, when 38 girls were given it, #1,284 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1982 | 7 | #9,214 | 4.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #9,074 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 8 | #8,043 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,630 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,549 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,258 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,150 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,742 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 9 | #6,066 | 6.2 |
| 1972 | 11 | #5,104 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 9 | #5,991 | 5.4 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,489 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 17 | #3,456 | 10.1 |
| 1968 | 14 | #3,781 | 8.5 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,615 | 6.1 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,948 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,996 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 12 | #4,010 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,777 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 12 | #4,005 | 5.9 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,169 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,613 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,744 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 15 | #3,148 | 7.3 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,183 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,373 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 11 | #3,712 | 5.7 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,067 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,668 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,709 | 5.6 |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,952 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 15 | #2,721 | 8.8 |
| 1948 | 17 | #2,486 | 10.0 |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,692 | 5.6 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,986 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,909 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 17 | #2,196 | 12.8 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,247 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,655 | 9.6 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,266 | 12.4 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,415 | 11.4 |
| 1939 | 17 | #2,036 | 15.5 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,870 | 17.2 |
| 1937 | 15 | #2,190 | 14.1 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,478 | 25.0 |
| 1935 | 17 | #2,000 | 16.2 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,999 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 23 | #1,603 | 22.8 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,814 | 18.7 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,419 | 26.3 |
| 1930 | 20 | #1,870 | 17.8 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,429 | 12.5 |
| 1928 | 19 | #2,018 | 16.5 |
| 1927 | 28 | #1,584 | 23.5 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,447 | 27.0 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,745 | 20.5 |
| 1924 | 31 | #1,532 | 24.8 |
| 1923 | 25 | #1,733 | 20.7 |
| 1922 | 38 | #1,284 | 31.6 |
| 1921 | 37 | #1,296 | 30.0 |
| 1920 | 20 | #2,011 | 16.7 |
| 1919 | 24 | #1,697 | 21.2 |
| 1918 | 25 | #1,642 | 21.6 |
| 1917 | 31 | #1,334 | 28.7 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,800 | 19.2 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,137 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 13 | #2,007 | 17.1 |
| 1913 | 14 | #1,669 | 22.4 |
| 1911 | 10 | #1,652 | 23.9 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,391 | 15.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wanetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wanetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wanetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wanetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 423 Americans named Wanetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (38% of everyone recorded); the median is 69 years old and half are between 57 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 528 people named Wanetta (525 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 519 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,960 babies since 1880, Wanetta is the third most given (14% 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 Wanetta
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 Wanetta and names like it
- Compare Wanetta and WanitaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sWanetta peaked in 1922.
- Indiana’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wanetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Wanetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wanetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.