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Wauneta

Wauneta is a girl's name that peaked in 1922, when it was the 1,430th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 1950. About 60 Waunetas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 87.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Wauneta

By the numbers

Total US births
552
Estimated living today
60
Median age today
87
Peak year
1922
Best rank
1,430th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1900

How old the living Waunetas are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 552 babies given the name since 1900, about 60 are alive — 10 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1938 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 Wauneta is most common

  • NE3.70
  • KS0.68
  • MO0.09
  • IL0.03

Across the country Wauneta is recorded 0.04 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Waunetas are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.

  • NE91
  • KS24
  • MO7
  • IL5

Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 1922

The most popular girls’ names the year Wauneta peaked:

All the names of 1922

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Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.