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Wave: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 35 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,269 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,269 in 2024; #3,377 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Wave in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,377 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #3,269.
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Wave: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 35 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,269 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 37 (2024).
In 2025, 35 US boys were named Wave, making it the 3,377th most common boys’ name of the year, down 108 places from #3,269 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 37 boys named Wave in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,269, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 37. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Wave, making it the 17,125th most common girls’ name of the year, up 427 places from #17,552 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 5 girls named Wave in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,543, reached in 1897. The most girls given the name in a single year was 11, in 1918. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wave in 20 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1897 with 6 babies. In all, 242 US babies have been given the name, 48% of them girls and 52% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 142 babies named Wave.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 126 US boys were named Wave; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 37. In 2025 that was about 1 in 48,802 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #17,125 | 35 | #3,377 |
| 2024 | 5 | #17,552 | 37 | #3,269 |
| 2023 | — | — | 25 | #4,334 |
| 2022 | 6 | #15,190 | 15 | #6,136 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,644 |
| 2020 | — | — | 6 | #11,936 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,784 | — | — |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,951 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,992 | — | — |
| 1921 | 8 | #4,013 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,957 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,237 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #3,019 | — | — |
| 1917 | 11 | #2,869 | — | — |
| 1916 | 7 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,252 | — | — |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1899 | 6 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,543 | — | — |
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).