Meaning not yet researched.
Waverly: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 244 in 2025. Its best rank was #736 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #736 in 2020; #1,028 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Waverly in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,028 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #736.
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Waverly: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 244 girls in 2025. Peak: #736 in 2020 · most girls in one year: 384 (2022).
In 2025, 244 US girls were named Waverly, making it the 1,028th most common girls’ name of the year, down 122 places from #906 in 2024. That is 49 fewer than the 293 girls named Waverly in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #736, reached in 2020. The most girls given the name in a single year was 384, in 2022. For comparison, it was #1,741 in 2015 and #4,726 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Waverly in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #735, reached in 1900. The most boys given the name in a single year was 46, in 1951. For comparison, it was #12,016 in 2015 and #1,255 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Waverly in 135 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1881 with 5 babies. In all, 6,550 US babies have been given the name, 70% of them girls and 30% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 1,995 babies named Waverly.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,065 US girls were named Waverly; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 384. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,587 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Waverly ranked highest in Kansas in 2025, at #495 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Waverley, Waverlee and Waverli are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Waverley (252), Waverlee (86), Waverli (7).
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 Waverly in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 29 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kansas | 7 | #495 | — |
| Tennessee | 14 | #567 | #1,243 |
| Indiana | 12 | #576 | — |
| Mississippi | 5 | #628 | — |
| Ohio | 15 | #667 | — |
| Washington | 10 | #676 | — |
| Missouri | 8 | #724 | — |
| Colorado | 7 | #784 | — |
| Alabama | 6 | #813 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #827 | #1,382 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #829 | — |
| Minnesota | 6 | #831 | #1,012 |
| Florida | 19 | #862 | #2,392 |
| Virginia | 8 | #928 | #1,390 |
| Maryland | 5 | #989 | #1,040 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,206 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,385 | — |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,394 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,404 | — |
| New York | 10 | #1,410 | #1,949 |
| Texas | 15 | #1,611 | — |
| California | 11 | #1,940 | #2,145 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 244 | #1,028 | — | — |
| 2024 | 293 | #906 | 5 | #14,155 |
| 2023 | 305 | #882 | — | — |
| 2022 | 384 | #753 | — | — |
| 2021 | 381 | #749 | 6 | #12,062 |
| 2020 | 372 | #736 | 5 | #13,941 |
| 2019 | 337 | #811 | 6 | #12,057 |
| 2018 | 269 | #984 | 5 | #13,985 |
| 2017 | 255 | #1,019 | 9 | #8,793 |
| 2016 | 225 | #1,131 | 5 | #14,087 |
| 2015 | 121 | #1,741 | 6 | #12,016 |
| 2014 | 133 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 2013 | 109 | #1,865 | 5 | #13,962 |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,447 | — | — |
| 2011 | 69 | #2,612 | 7 | #10,724 |
| 2010 | 56 | #3,043 | 5 | #14,151 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,778 | — | — |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,315 | 5 | #14,511 |
| 2007 | 40 | #3,977 | — | — |
| 2006 | 40 | #3,850 | — | — |
| 2005 | 38 | #3,870 | — | — |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,948 | — | — |
| 2003 | 38 | #3,725 | 6 | #10,838 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,277 | — | — |
| 2001 | 33 | #3,936 | 7 | #9,196 |
| 2000 | 28 | #4,394 | 6 | #10,300 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,571 | 5 | #11,547 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,235 | 8 | #7,523 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,101 | 9 | #6,592 |
| 1996 | 35 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 1995 | 52 | #2,484 | 6 | #8,827 |
| 1994 | 50 | #2,538 | 8 | #6,945 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,724 | 5 | #10,109 |
| 1992 | 5 | #15,552 | 5 | #9,776 |
| 1991 | — | — | 8 | #6,507 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,914 | 11 | #4,984 |
| 1989 | 6 | #12,327 | 11 | #4,800 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,834 | 6 | #7,241 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,208 | — | — |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,312 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,322 |
| 1984 | — | — | 10 | #4,203 |
| 1983 | 6 | #10,251 | 9 | #4,488 |
| 1982 | — | — | 8 | #4,986 |
| 1981 | — | — | 12 | #3,597 |
| 1980 | — | — | 16 | #2,959 |
| 1979 | — | — | 9 | #4,392 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,727 | 15 | #2,925 |
| 1977 | — | — | 9 | #4,158 |
| 1976 | 7 | #8,144 | 14 | #2,942 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,965 | 10 | #3,654 |
| 1974 | 5 | #10,222 | 14 | #2,795 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,776 | 10 | #3,441 |
| 1972 | — | — | 10 | #3,338 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,302 | 13 | #2,811 |
| 1970 | 5 | #9,331 | 19 | #2,121 |
| 1969 | — | — | 13 | #2,546 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,236 | 16 | #2,106 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,787 | 14 | #2,240 |
| 1966 | — | — | 24 | #1,611 |
| 1965 | — | — | 12 | #2,470 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,460 | 16 | #2,112 |
| 1963 | 9 | #4,890 | 27 | #1,546 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,780 | 20 | #1,850 |
| 1961 | — | — | 30 | #1,495 |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,686 | 29 | #1,522 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,231 | 31 | #1,438 |
| 1958 | 5 | #7,010 | 19 | #1,893 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,990 | 33 | #1,386 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,874 | 40 | #1,216 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,814 | 27 | #1,502 |
| 1954 | 7 | #5,140 | 25 | #1,558 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,101 | 24 | #1,591 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,546 | 28 | #1,460 |
| 1951 | 5 | #6,194 | 46 | #1,067 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,726 | 34 | #1,255 |
| 1949 | 7 | #4,656 | 28 | #1,407 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,875 | 33 | #1,278 |
| 1947 | 5 | #6,091 | 29 | #1,392 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,948 | 34 | #1,215 |
| 1945 | — | — | 27 | #1,295 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,559 | 23 | #1,437 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,677 | 21 | #1,575 |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,359 | 25 | #1,419 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,947 | 28 | #1,274 |
| 1940 | — | — | 17 | #1,733 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,775 | 23 | #1,423 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,970 | 22 | #1,474 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,907 | 23 | #1,441 |
| 1936 | 6 | #4,163 | 23 | #1,416 |
| 1935 | — | — | 22 | #1,489 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,794 | 20 | #1,606 |
| 1933 | — | — | 31 | #1,201 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,556 | 25 | #1,424 |
| 1931 | — | — | 22 | #1,536 |
| 1930 | — | — | 24 | #1,531 |
| 1929 | — | — | 42 | #1,075 |
| 1928 | — | — | 24 | #1,565 |
| 1927 | — | — | 31 | #1,348 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,552 | 25 | #1,513 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,953 | 27 | #1,448 |
| 1924 | — | — | 40 | #1,151 |
| 1923 | — | — | 35 | #1,234 |
| 1922 | — | — | 34 | #1,257 |
| 1921 | — | — | 27 | #1,473 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,735 | 25 | #1,541 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,239 | 31 | #1,294 |
| 1918 | — | — | 19 | #1,823 |
| 1917 | — | — | 23 | #1,525 |
| 1916 | — | — | 23 | #1,501 |
| 1915 | — | — | 20 | #1,598 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,183 | 16 | #1,604 |
| 1913 | — | — | 11 | #1,798 |
| 1912 | — | — | 10 | #1,740 |
| 1911 | — | — | 13 | #979 |
| 1910 | — | — | 8 | #1,307 |
| 1909 | — | — | 5 | #1,669 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,088 |
| 1906 | — | — | 5 | #1,406 |
| 1905 | — | — | 10 | #835 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #1,003 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,205 |
| 1900 | — | — | 13 | #735 |
| 1898 | — | — | 7 | #996 |
| 1897 | — | — | 6 | #1,052 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #896 |
| 1895 | — | — | 9 | #792 |
| 1894 | — | — | 5 | #1,227 |
| 1893 | — | — | 6 | #1,026 |
| 1892 | — | — | 6 | #1,062 |
| 1889 | — | — | 6 | #969 |
| 1888 | — | — | 6 | #1,025 |
| 1886 | — | — | 7 | #841 |
| 1884 | — | — | 5 | #1,117 |
| 1881 | — | — | 5 | #988 |
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).