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Wateen: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 112 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,806 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Wateen in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,806 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Wateen: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 112 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,806 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 112 (2025).
In 2025, 112 US girls were named Wateen, making it the 1,806th most common girls’ name of the year, up 683 places from #2,489 in 2024. That is 39 more than the 73 girls named Wateen in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,806, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 112. For comparison, it was #12,940 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wateen in 13 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2012 with 9 babies. In all, 378 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 308 babies named Wateen.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 342 US girls were named Wateen; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 112. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,351 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wateen ranked highest in Michigan in 2025, at #392 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state.
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US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michigan | 23 | #392 | — |
| New York | 18 | #899 | — |
| Illinois | 9 | #1,005 | — |
| California | 15 | #1,572 | — |
| Texas | 5 | #3,762 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
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).