Wavie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Wavie

The Social Security Administration has registered 261 babies named Wavie between 1893 and 1945, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wavie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1945. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 16 babies received it in a single year. Wavie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 46 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wavie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Wavie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in West Virginia, which accounts for 12 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Wavie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wavie 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 261 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.