Waverley
Waverley was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,862 among girls’ names; 252 Americans have been recorded with it since 1919 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Waverley by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Waverley?
#7,862 among girls’ names, 2025
Waverley rose from #8,418 in 2015 to #7,862 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 7.8 to 8.7 per million.
27 babies in 2022, the peak
Waverley peaked in 2022, when 27 girls were given it, #5,012 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,862 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,596 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 26 | #5,115 | 16.2 |
| 2022 | 27 | #5,012 | 16.5 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,081 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,066 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,106 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #7,080 | 10.0 |
| 2017 | 7 | #14,027 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #10,075 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (17)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 14 | #8,418 | 7.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,909 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,418 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,201 | 5.7 |
| 2008 | 6 | #17,385 | 3.2 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,868 | 2.8 |
| 1995 | 5 | #15,689 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Waverley a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 252 Americans recorded as Waverley, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 14 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Waverley: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Waverley, and how old are they?
An estimated 240 Americans named Waverley and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 6 years old and half are between 3 and 10. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 194 people named Waverley (176 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 111 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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).
How common is the spelling Waverley?
Waverley is a less common spelling of Waverly: SSA has recorded 252 Waverley and 6,550 Waverly since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 6,888 babies since 1880, Waverley is the second most given (3.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 264 babies (5.3%), again the second most given.
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 Waverley
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.
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