Waldo
Waldo is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 347th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1915174 births
- Best rank
- #347in 1881
- Since 1880
- 5,711people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,711 boys have been named Waldo in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 174 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 174 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Waldo | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 134 | |
| 1890s | 196 | |
| 1900s | 228 | |
| 1910s | 1,178 | |
| 1920s | 1,355 | |
| 1930s | 820 | |
| 1940s | 471 | |
| 1950s | 359 | |
| 1960s | 278 | |
| 1970s | 154 | |
| 1980s | 188 | |
| 1990s | 155 | |
| 2000s | 113 | |
| 2010s | 66 | |
| 2020s | 16 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Waldo was the 407th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Waldo
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rupertpeak 1920
- Ludwigpeak 1916
- Ellsworthpeak 1918
- Hermanpeak 1921
- Clementpeak 1918
- Elmerpeak 1918
- Aloysiuspeak 1916
- Earlepeak 1918
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.