Wanette
Wanette was last recorded in 1973, when 5 babies were given it; 85 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wanette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wanette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #9,773, in 1973; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
13 babies in 1970, the peak
Wanette peaked in 1970, when 13 girls were given it, #4,490 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1973 | 5 | #9,773 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,298 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,490 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,604 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,506 | 2.8 |
| 1964 | 6 | #6,755 | 3.2 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,684 | 3.5 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,194 | 4.9 |
| 1955 | 9 | #4,365 | 4.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,735 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (12)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | 6 | #5,225 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,086 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wanette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wanette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 12 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wanette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wanette, and how old are they?
An estimated 71 Americans named Wanette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 137 people named Wanette (133 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 75 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.8 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7 names spelled alike, given to 4,959 babies since 1880, Wanette is the seventh most given (1.7% 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 Wanette
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 Wanette and names like it
- Compare Wanette and WanetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWanette peaked in 1970.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Wanette.
- Names starting with WMost given first.