Wayde vs Wayland

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Wayde Wayland

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 123 years in which either name was published, Wayland for 97 years and Wayde for 26 years. The lead changed hands 18 times.

• 1884–1956 Wayland ahead
• 1957–1961 Wayde ahead
• 1962–1993 Wayland ahead, apart from 2 short spells
• 1994–2014 Wayde ahead, apart from one short spell
• 2021–2025 Wayland ahead

11 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.

Side by side

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 Waylands alive today are over 47; half the Waydes are over 36. That is 11 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

• Wayde Minnesota (3.3×), California (1.8×), New York (1.5×)
• Wayland Texas (8.0×), North Carolina (3.8×), Oklahoma (3.4×)

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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