Waldemar
Waldemar is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 848th, in 1906.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 191550 births
- Best rank
- #848in 1906
- Since 1891
- 1,505people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,505 boys have been named Waldemar in the United States since 1891, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 50 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 50 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 23%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Waldemar | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 23 | |
| 1900s | 51 | |
| 1910s | 308 | |
| 1920s | 350 | |
| 1930s | 175 | |
| 1940s | 73 | |
| 1950s | 82 | |
| 1960s | 108 | |
| 1970s | 94 | |
| 1980s | 93 | |
| 1990s | 70 | |
| 2000s | 47 | |
| 2010s | 21 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
In 1915, its biggest year
Waldemar was the 878th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Waldemar
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Milburnpeak 1918
- Estelpeak 1921
- Haskellpeak 1919
- Estillpeak 1919
- Cyrilpeak 1916
- Durwardpeak 1916
- Arvelpeak 1921
- Orispeak 1915
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.