Wava
Wava is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 967th, in 1905.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192460 births
- Best rank
- #967in 1905
- Since 1892
- 1,727people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,727 girls have been named Wava in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 60 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 60 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 29%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1924, its biggest year
Wava was the 991st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Wava
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Freedapeak 1924
- Florinepeak 1921
- Ouidapeak 1924
- Palmapeak 1925
- Allenepeak 1926
- Bernardinepeak 1925
- Claricepeak 1921
- Cleonepeak 1926
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.