Wanda
Wanda is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 47th, in 1934.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 19577,712 births
- Best rank
- #47in 1934
- Since 1880
- 281,196people given the name
The story in the numbers
281,196 girls have been named Wanda in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 7,712 births — 0.38% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 26 births in 2024, against 7,712 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1949, and the 1950s alone account for 26%. It has spent 110 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 46 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Wanda | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 143 | |
| 1890s | 626 | |
| 1900s | 1,527 | |
| 1910s | 10,735 | |
| 1920s | 36,007 | |
| 1930s | 43,072 | |
| 1940s | 50,776 | |
| 1950s | 72,447 | |
| 1960s | 47,773 | |
| 1970s | 13,281 | |
| 1980s | 2,873 | |
| 1990s | 1,095 | |
| 2000s | 479 | |
| 2010s | 238 | |
| 2020s | 124 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Wanda was the 59th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1957 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Debra and Karen. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Wanda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lorethapeak 1954
- Charleanpeak 1952
- Earthapeak 1955
- Phylisspeak 1951
- Frediapeak 1948
- Thomasinepeak 1950
- Madonnapeak 1954
- Dorethapeak 1956
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.