Wayman
Wayman is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 736th, in 1900.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195059 births
- Best rank
- #736in 1900
- Since 1884
- 2,850people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,850 boys have been named Wayman in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1950, with 59 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 59 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1945, and the 1950s alone account for 17%. It has spent 18 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Wayman | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 15 | |
| 1890s | 56 | |
| 1900s | 68 | |
| 1910s | 260 | |
| 1920s | 426 | |
| 1930s | 379 | |
| 1940s | 417 | |
| 1950s | 472 | |
| 1960s | 276 | |
| 1970s | 207 | |
| 1980s | 131 | |
| 1990s | 89 | |
| 2000s | 47 | |
| 2010s | 7 |
In 1950, its biggest year
Wayman was the 898th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1950 were James, Robert, John, Michael and David. See all of 1950.
Names that rose and fell with Wayman
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Benniepeak 1929
- Laurencepeak 1952
- Cliffordpeak 1925
- Haywardpeak 1956
- Carlpeak 1956
- Carletonpeak 1923
- Othapeak 1920
- Raypeak 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.