Meaning not yet researched.
Wanda: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 20 in 2025. Its best rank was #47 in 1934.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #47 in 1934; #6,096 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wanda in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,096 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1934, at #47.
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Wanda: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 20 girls in 2025. Peak: #47 in 1934 · most girls in one year: 7,713 (1957).
In 2025, 20 US girls were named Wanda, making it the 6,096th most common girls’ name of the year, down 958 places from #5,138 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 26 girls named Wanda in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #47, reached in 1934. The most girls given the name in a single year was 7,713, in 1957. For comparison, it was #5,447 in 2015 and #52 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wanda in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 11 babies with the name. In all, 282,186 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 72,636 babies named Wanda.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 235 US girls were named Wanda; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 36. In 2025 that was about 1 in 80,363 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Vanda and Waunda are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Belarusian, Dutch, Italian and Polish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Vanda (1,683), Waunda (37).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Wanda in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,096 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,138 | — | — |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,943 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,625 | — | — |
| 2021 | 36 | #4,083 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,618 | — | — |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,577 | — | — |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,228 | — | — |
| 2017 | 28 | #4,915 | — | — |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,727 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,447 | — | — |
| 2014 | 23 | #5,785 | — | — |
| 2013 | 30 | #4,747 | — | — |
| 2012 | 28 | #5,106 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,719 | — | — |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,200 | — | — |
| 2009 | 43 | #3,734 | — | — |
| 2008 | 38 | #4,171 | — | — |
| 2007 | 30 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 2006 | 30 | #4,805 | — | — |
| 2005 | 49 | #3,208 | — | — |
| 2004 | 36 | #3,985 | — | — |
| 2003 | 69 | #2,412 | — | — |
| 2002 | 64 | #2,495 | — | — |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,662 | — | — |
| 2000 | 63 | #2,455 | — | — |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1998 | 72 | #2,065 | — | — |
| 1997 | 59 | #2,306 | — | — |
| 1996 | 79 | #1,863 | — | — |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,639 | — | — |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,582 | — | — |
| 1993 | 133 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1992 | 122 | #1,369 | — | — |
| 1991 | 172 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 1990 | 191 | #980 | — | — |
| 1989 | 179 | #976 | — | — |
| 1988 | 175 | #956 | — | — |
| 1987 | 218 | #804 | 5 | #8,101 |
| 1986 | 182 | #899 | 5 | #7,784 |
| 1985 | 234 | #741 | — | — |
| 1984 | 293 | #612 | 5 | #7,308 |
| 1983 | 319 | #569 | 7 | #5,463 |
| 1982 | 335 | #553 | 5 | #7,339 |
| 1981 | 457 | #465 | — | — |
| 1980 | 481 | #445 | — | — |
| 1979 | 576 | #384 | — | — |
| 1978 | 588 | #361 | — | — |
| 1977 | 729 | #322 | 7 | #5,109 |
| 1976 | 855 | #272 | — | — |
| 1975 | 1,057 | #230 | — | — |
| 1974 | 1,206 | #208 | 7 | #4,624 |
| 1973 | 1,411 | #187 | 7 | #4,490 |
| 1972 | 1,775 | #166 | 8 | #3,956 |
| 1971 | 2,365 | #137 | 9 | #3,652 |
| 1970 | 2,718 | #132 | 8 | #3,826 |
| 1969 | 2,684 | #126 | 15 | #2,305 |
| 1968 | 2,963 | #115 | 23 | #1,693 |
| 1967 | 3,473 | #100 | 18 | #1,903 |
| 1966 | 4,093 | #84 | 23 | #1,648 |
| 1965 | 4,654 | #81 | 15 | #2,173 |
| 1964 | 5,164 | #81 | 23 | #1,697 |
| 1963 | 5,596 | #76 | 35 | #1,337 |
| 1962 | 6,003 | #77 | 21 | #1,803 |
| 1961 | 6,467 | #70 | 32 | #1,437 |
| 1960 | 6,674 | #66 | 25 | #1,657 |
| 1959 | 6,907 | #65 | 21 | #1,803 |
| 1958 | 6,891 | #66 | 22 | #1,721 |
| 1957 | 7,713 | #59 | 22 | #1,749 |
| 1956 | 7,546 | #61 | 22 | #1,720 |
| 1955 | 7,415 | #61 | 11 | #2,551 |
| 1954 | 7,447 | #58 | 24 | #1,591 |
| 1953 | 7,203 | #57 | 17 | #1,956 |
| 1952 | 7,164 | #54 | 19 | #1,801 |
| 1951 | 7,233 | #52 | 13 | #2,241 |
| 1950 | 6,929 | #52 | 17 | #1,877 |
| 1949 | 6,307 | #56 | 12 | #2,335 |
| 1948 | 5,918 | #57 | 15 | #2,022 |
| 1947 | 5,649 | #66 | 5 | #4,243 |
| 1946 | 5,235 | #59 | 15 | #1,946 |
| 1945 | 4,295 | #58 | 17 | #1,692 |
| 1944 | 4,431 | #58 | 22 | #1,481 |
| 1943 | 4,705 | #56 | 20 | #1,632 |
| 1942 | 4,792 | #54 | 22 | #1,534 |
| 1941 | 4,735 | #53 | 21 | #1,529 |
| 1940 | 4,708 | #52 | 25 | #1,366 |
| 1939 | 4,557 | #50 | 17 | #1,708 |
| 1938 | 4,513 | #49 | 22 | #1,473 |
| 1937 | 4,202 | #55 | 16 | #1,826 |
| 1936 | 3,882 | #56 | 10 | #2,447 |
| 1935 | 4,102 | #49 | 17 | #1,752 |
| 1934 | 4,368 | #47 | 27 | #1,322 |
| 1933 | 4,268 | #48 | 19 | #1,640 |
| 1932 | 4,261 | #52 | 18 | #1,776 |
| 1931 | 4,395 | #54 | 24 | #1,455 |
| 1930 | 4,524 | #56 | 15 | #2,076 |
| 1929 | 4,397 | #61 | 23 | #1,561 |
| 1928 | 4,318 | #63 | 15 | #2,159 |
| 1927 | 4,302 | #66 | 19 | #1,870 |
| 1926 | 4,125 | #66 | 13 | #2,428 |
| 1925 | 3,803 | #72 | 8 | #3,396 |
| 1924 | 3,735 | #74 | 9 | #3,247 |
| 1923 | 3,405 | #80 | 6 | #4,219 |
| 1922 | 2,986 | #92 | 7 | #3,853 |
| 1921 | 2,738 | #101 | 9 | #3,203 |
| 1920 | 2,198 | #117 | — | — |
| 1919 | 1,824 | #128 | — | — |
| 1918 | 1,827 | #128 | 7 | #3,711 |
| 1917 | 1,545 | #140 | 6 | #3,954 |
| 1916 | 1,505 | #138 | — | — |
| 1915 | 1,233 | #154 | — | — |
| 1914 | 881 | #164 | — | — |
| 1913 | 687 | #168 | — | — |
| 1912 | 545 | #181 | — | — |
| 1911 | 380 | #189 | — | — |
| 1910 | 308 | #211 | — | — |
| 1909 | 272 | #211 | — | — |
| 1908 | 226 | #227 | — | — |
| 1907 | 200 | #235 | — | — |
| 1906 | 173 | #248 | — | — |
| 1905 | 125 | #300 | — | — |
| 1904 | 116 | #302 | — | — |
| 1903 | 134 | #265 | — | — |
| 1902 | 106 | #308 | — | — |
| 1901 | 81 | #341 | — | — |
| 1900 | 94 | #345 | — | — |
| 1899 | 85 | #326 | — | — |
| 1898 | 106 | #301 | — | — |
| 1897 | 83 | #319 | — | — |
| 1896 | 58 | #376 | — | — |
| 1895 | 62 | #356 | — | — |
| 1894 | 52 | #394 | — | — |
| 1893 | 59 | #352 | — | — |
| 1892 | 37 | #452 | — | — |
| 1891 | 47 | #364 | — | — |
| 1890 | 37 | #424 | — | — |
| 1889 | 25 | #514 | — | — |
| 1888 | 22 | #547 | — | — |
| 1887 | 29 | #411 | — | — |
| 1886 | 12 | #690 | — | — |
| 1885 | 12 | #656 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #681 | — | — |
| 1883 | 5 | #1,048 | — | — |
| 1882 | 10 | #633 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #825 | — | — |
| 1880 | 11 | #545 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).