Waneta
Recorded 1895–2022 · United States
Waneta was most popular in 1923, when 101 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,335 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,466 people named Waneta.
Waneta over time
How old is the name Waneta?
Waneta first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1895, which makes it about 130 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 84 of the 131 years since.
How many people are named Waneta?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,466 American births named Waneta 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 596 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Waneta in 2025?
Waneta 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 Waneta getting more or less popular?
Waneta is new. It was not recorded at all a decade ago and averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Waneta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Waneta is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 2,466 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 100% girls and 0% 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 Waneta?
Roughly 596 Americans named Waneta are alive today — 24% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 75 years old, and half are between 62 and 86.
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 Waneta 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