Waynette
Waynette was last recorded in 1989, when 5 babies were given it; 589 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Waynette by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Waynette?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,493, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1970, the peak
Waynette peaked in 1970, when 23 girls were given it, #3,027 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 5 | #14,493 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,203 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,870 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,249 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,215 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #9,085 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,156 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,304 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,935 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,229 | 11.1 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 10 | #6,040 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,978 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,356 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,960 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 21 | #3,173 | 13.8 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,162 | 13.2 |
| 1970 | 23 | #3,027 | 13.2 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,616 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 18 | #3,164 | 11.0 |
| 1967 | 17 | #3,208 | 10.3 |
| 1966 | 9 | #4,855 | 5.3 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,259 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 9 | #5,000 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,702 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,030 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,536 | 5.0 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,171 | 5.4 |
| 1959 | 14 | #3,430 | 6.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,881 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,905 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 17 | #2,925 | 8.5 |
| 1955 | 10 | #4,060 | 5.1 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,485 | 6.2 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,217 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,797 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,933 | 7.8 |
| 1950 | 13 | #3,045 | 7.6 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,509 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,875 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,527 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,660 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,378 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,622 | 9.8 |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,481 | 6.5 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,726 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,946 | 5.8 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,230 | 5.5 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,176 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,242 | 5.6 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,869 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,203 | 6.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Waynette a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Waynette has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Waynette: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Waynette, and how old are they?
An estimated 471 Americans named Waynette and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 61 years old and half are between 53 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 487 people named Waynette (481 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 507 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 2,493 babies since 1880, Waynette is the second most given (24% 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 Waynette
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 Waynette and names like it
- Compare Waynette and WanettaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWaynette peaked in 1970.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Waynette since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Waynette.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Waynette alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with WMost given first.