Wanza — girls' name

What the Data Says About Wanza

The Social Security Administration has registered 418 babies named Wanza between 1915 and 1965, spanning 51 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wanza currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1965. The name reached its historical peak in 1915, when 33 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wanza performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 86 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Wanza shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 10 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Wanza in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wanza 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 418 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.