Wael
- #6,446 for boys in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · boys
- 1978 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 9 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 520since 1977
Wael over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Wael has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,446 | 13 |
| 2024 | #4,890 | 20 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | #4,442 | 23 |
| 2021 | #5,338 | 17 |
| 2020 | #8,739 | 8 |
| 2019 | #4,951 | 19 |
| 2018 | #4,739 | 20 |
| 2017 | #5,526 | 16 |
| 2016 | #4,943 | 19 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 23 |
| 2014 | #7,562 | 10 |
| 2013 | #5,404 | 16 |
| 2012 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #7,009 | 11 |
| 2010 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #6,763 | 12 |
| 2007 | #6,262 | 13 |
| 2006 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #8,299 | 8 |
| 2004 | #6,976 | 10 |
| 2003 | #8,643 | 7 |
| 2002 | #4,502 | 17 |
| 2001 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #7,416 | 8 |
| 1999 | #4,537 | 15 |
| 1998 | #5,840 | 10 |
| 1997 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #5,535 | 10 |
| 1995 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #5,868 | 9 |
| 1993 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #6,670 | 7 |
| 1991 | #5,521 | 9 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #7,905 | 5 |
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| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #5,147 | 7 |
| 1984 | #3,925 | 10 |
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| 1982 | #6,385 | 5 |
| 1981 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
| 1979 | #6,056 | 5 |
| 1978 | #3,400 | 11 |
| 1977 | #3,836 | 9 |
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First appearance
1977
The first year at least five boys were named Wael! It came in at #3,836, and was given to 9 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1981–1983, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Wael is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Wael in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 1,556 spots since 2024 (#4,890 → #6,446)
- 2,293 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #6,446)
- 2,151 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #6,446)
Rise & fade · boys
1 yr to peak
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1978 at #3,400 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1979, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 75,913
- Highest: 1 in 75,913 boys born in 2022 were named Wael (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 131,390 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,400 in 1978, was only 1 in 149,258 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 29.4% of all boys named Wael (153) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 25 | #3,400 (1978) | #4,431 |
| 1980s | 50 | #3,925 (1984) | #5,453 |
| 1990s | 91 | #4,537 (1999) | #6,076 |
| 2000s | 109 | #4,502 (2002) | #6,885 |
| 2010s | 153 | #4,295 (2015) | #6,013 |
| 2020s | 92 | #4,442 (2022) | #6,191 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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