Waverly — #915 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Waverly

The Social Security Administration has registered 4,314 babies named Waverly between 1914 and 2024, spanning 111 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Waverly currently holds the #915 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 384 babies received it in a single year. Waverly is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,982 additional births since 1881.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Waverly performed strongest in the 2020s, accumulating 1,730 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Waverly shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 295 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Virginia. In total, SSA state-level files list Waverly in 38 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Waverly 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 4,314 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.