Wanna — girls' name

What the Data Says About Wanna

The Social Security Administration has registered 550 babies named Wanna between 1907 and 1967, spanning 61 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wanna currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1967. The name reached its historical peak in 1923, when 22 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wanna performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 168 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Wanna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Oklahoma, which accounts for 11 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Kentucky. In total, SSA state-level files list Wanna in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wanna in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 550 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.