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Wandell vs Wanna

American parents have registered 550 Wannas since 1880, against 87 Wandells. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wandell against Wanna, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wandell Wanna

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 54 years in which either name was published, Wanna for 50 years and Wandell for 4 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Wandell Wanna
Total US births 87550
Most in one year 822
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 40170
Median age today 5976
Peak year 19231923
Best rank 3,175th boys1,840th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19231907
Girls / boys 5 / 82550 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Wannas alive today are over 76; half the Wandells are over 59. That is 17 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Wandell and Wanna.