Wannetta
Wannetta was last recorded in 1981, when 5 babies were given it; 356 Americans have been recorded with it between 1918 and 1981 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wannetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wannetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #12,150, in 1981; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
40 babies in 1953, the peak
Wannetta peaked in 1953, when 40 girls were given it, #1,562 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1981 | 5 | #12,150 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,925 | 3.1 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,296 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,613 | 3.0 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,959 | 4.7 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,975 | 5.5 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,596 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 11 | #4,195 | 6.2 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,997 | 3.7 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,570 | 3.1 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | #6,562 | 3.1 |
| 1961 | 8 | #5,291 | 4.0 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,370 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,614 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 9 | #4,512 | 4.5 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,365 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 18 | #2,822 | 9.0 |
| 1955 | 33 | #1,875 | 16.9 |
| 1954 | 36 | #1,735 | 18.5 |
| 1953 | 40 | #1,562 | 21.3 |
| 1952 | 29 | #1,890 | 15.6 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,276 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,723 | 4.1 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,888 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,016 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,752 | 3.9 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,945 | 3.8 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,929 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,902 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,254 | 4.5 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,406 | 4.3 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,742 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,956 | 6.6 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,790 | 5.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wannetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wannetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wannetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wannetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 257 Americans named Wannetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 64 and 73. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 295 people named Wannetta (292 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 281 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% 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).
How common is the spelling Wannetta?
Wannetta is a less common spelling of Waneta: SSA has recorded 356 Wannetta and 2,466 Waneta since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 5,543 babies since 1880, Wannetta is the fifth most given (6.4% 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 Wannetta
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 Wannetta and names like it
- Compare Wannetta and WanetaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sWannetta peaked in 1953.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wannetta since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Wannetta.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wannetta alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.