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Wayman vs Waymond

American parents have registered 2,850 Waymans since 1880, against 1,479 Waymonds. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wayman against Waymond, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wayman Waymond

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 117 years in which either name was published, Wayman for 111 years and Waymond for 6 years. The lead changed hands 6 times.

Side by side

  Wayman Waymond
Total US births 2,8501,479
Most in one year 5943
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,200810
Median age today 6361
Peak year 19501953
Best rank 893rd boys1,123rd boys
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 18841900
Girls / boys 0 / 2,8500 / 1,479

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 Waymans alive today are over 63; half the Waymonds are over 61. That is 2 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

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

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