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Waneta

About 2,466 American babies have been named Waneta since 1895, most of them around 1923. It has not appeared in the national data since 2022. About 590 Wanetas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 74.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Waneta

By the numbers

Total US births
2,466
Estimated living today
590
Median age today
74
Peak year
1923
Best rank
724th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1895

How old the living Wanetas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,466 babies given the name since 1895, about 590 are alive — 24 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1951 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Where Waneta is most common

  • IN4.31
  • WV2.50
  • KS2.46
  • OH1.27
  • MO1.13
  • VT0.87
  • MI0.81
  • IA0.79
  • IL0.53
  • OK0.35

Across the country Waneta is recorded 0.32 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Wanetas are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.

  • IN342
  • OH196
  • MI102
  • IL88
  • KS87
  • MO84
  • WV78
  • IA35
  • NY18
  • OK16

Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 1923

The most popular girls’ names the year Waneta peaked:

All the names of 1923

Related names

Waneta against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.