Wayne
Wayne is ranked 686th among boys in 2024 (394 births). Its best rank was 29th, in 1946.
- Rank in 2024
- #686up 48 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3940.02% of boys
- Peak year
- 194710,168 births
- Best rank
- #29in 1946
- Since 1880
- 355,989people given the name
The story in the numbers
354,385 boys have been named Wayne in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1947, with 10,168 births — 0.56% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 394 births in 2024, against 10,168 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1952, and the 1950s alone account for 25%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 57 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,604 girls have also been given it, 0.45% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wayne | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 283 | |
| 1890s | 509 | |
| 1900s | 1,158 | |
| 1910s | 11,572 | |
| 1920s | 26,402 | |
| 1930s | 41,140 | |
| 1940s | 75,130 | |
| 1950s | 88,092 | |
| 1960s | 54,757 | |
| 1970s | 24,619 | |
| 1980s | 14,747 | |
| 1990s | 7,503 | |
| 2000s | 3,719 | |
| 2010s | 3,051 | |
| 2020s | 1,703 |
In 1947, its biggest year
Wayne was the 30th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1947 were James, Robert, John, William and Richard. See all of 1947.
Names that rose and fell with Wayne
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Rogerpeak 1953
- Dalepeak 1958
- Richardpeak 1946
- Gaylonpeak 1949
- Lindellpeak 1949
- Darrelpeak 1960
- Kennethpeak 1957
- Rodgerpeak 1949
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.