Waddell
Recorded 1908–1990 · United States
Waddell was most popular in 1947, when 22 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,465 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 780 people named Waddell.
Waddell over time
How old is the name Waddell?
Waddell first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1908, which makes it about 117 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 72 of the 118 years since. It was last recorded in 1990.
How many people are named Waddell?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 780 American births named Waddell between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 311 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Waddell in 2025?
Waddell was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Waddell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Waddell is a boy’s name — 0.0% of the 780 Americans given it were girls and 100.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Waddell?
Roughly 311 Americans named Waddell are alive today — 40% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 68 years old, and half are between 57 and 77.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Waddell is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org