Waverley is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Waverly, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Waverley: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 14 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,015 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #5,015 in 2022; #7,864 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Waverley in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,864 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #5,015.
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Waverley: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 14 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,015 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 27 (2022).
In 2025, 14 US girls were named Waverley, making it the 7,864th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,265 places from #5,599 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 23 girls named Waverley in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,015, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 27. For comparison, it was #8,422 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waverley in 19 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 252 US babies have been given the name, 96% of them girls and 4.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 136 babies named Waverley.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 185 US girls were named Waverley; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 27. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Waverly (6,550 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Waverley 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.
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).