Waldemar
About 1,510 American babies have been named Waldemar since 1891, most of them around 1915. In 2025 it ranked 12,008th. About 520 Waldemars are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
boys named Waldemar
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,510
- Estimated living today
- 520
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 868th
- Rank in 2025
- 12,008th
- First recorded
- 1891
How old the living Waldemars are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,510 babies given the name since 1891, about 520 are alive — 35 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Germanic languages
Borrowed from German Waldemar in the 19th century. Compare Vladimir, from Slavic, and the Scandinavian name Valdemar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Waldemars
- Waldemar Haffkine (1856–1930)bacteriologist
- Waldemar Anton (born 1996)German-Uzbek footballer
- Waldemar Cierpinski (born 1950)East German athlete
- Waldemar Pawlak (born 1959)Polish politician
- Waldemar Bonsels (1881–1952)German writer
- Waldemar Baszanowski (1935–2011)Polish weightlifter
- Waldemar de Brito (1913–1979)Brazilian footballer
- Waldemar (1281–1319)Margrave of Brandenburg-Stendal
People named Waldemar with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Waldemar is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Waldemar is most concentrated in Wisconsin (20.4×), Minnesota (14.6×), Illinois (2.1×), New York (2.0×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular boys’ names the year Waldemar peaked:
Waldemar elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland boys | Waldemar | 568 birth registrations | 115th |
| Norway boys | Waldemar | 514 | 199th |
| France boys | Waldemar | 245 | 367th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Waldemar: rank by region
In 2025, Waldemar was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Śląskie | Waldemar | 254 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Waldemar among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Waldemar | 70 | 1,300 |
Among boys in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 1,300 who carry it, 70 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Waldemar against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.