Wanna vs Wanza
American parents have registered 550 Wannas since 1880, against 418 Wanzas. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Wanna Wanza
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 55 years in which either name was published, Wanna for 36 years and Wanza for 19 years. The lead changed hands 16 times.
- 1907–1941 Wanna ahead, apart from 2 short spells
- 1942–1946 Wanza ahead
- 1949–1953 Wanna ahead
- 1954–1965 Wanza ahead, apart from one short spell
10 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Wanna | Wanza | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 550 | 418 |
| Most in one year | 22 | 33 |
| Babies in 2025 | under 5 | under 5 |
| Estimated living today | 170 | 150 |
| Median age today | 76 | 71 |
| Peak year | 1923 | 1915 |
| Best rank | 1,840th girls | 1,190th girls |
| Rank in 2025 | unranked | unranked |
| First recorded | 1907 | 1915 |
| Girls / boys | 550 / 0 | 418 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Wannas alive today are over 76; half the Wanzas are over 71. That is 5 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Wanna and Wanza.