Waldon
Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349
- Peak · boys
- 1922 · 30 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 693since 1912
Waldon over time
Rank among boys' names. Waldon has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #9,714 | 7 |
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| 1988 | #5,751 | 7 |
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| 1974 | #5,227 | 5 |
| 1973 | #4,505 | 6 |
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| 1970 | #4,230 | 6 |
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| 1964 | #3,282 | 7 |
| 1963 | #3,044 | 8 |
| 1962 | #3,305 | 7 |
| 1961 | #2,242 | 14 |
| 1960 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,944 | 5 |
| 1957 | #3,552 | 6 |
| 1956 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,505 | 6 |
| 1954 | #2,942 | 8 |
| 1953 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,514 | 10 |
| 1951 | #2,495 | 10 |
| 1950 | #2,207 | 12 |
| 1949 | #2,453 | 10 |
| 1948 | #2,218 | 12 |
| 1947 | #2,862 | 8 |
| 1946 | #2,271 | 11 |
| 1945 | #2,242 | 10 |
| 1944 | #2,080 | 12 |
| 1943 | #1,986 | 14 |
| 1942 | #2,145 | 12 |
| 1941 | #2,207 | 11 |
| 1940 | #1,736 | 16 |
| 1939 | #2,159 | 11 |
| 1938 | #2,185 | 11 |
| 1937 | #3,518 | 5 |
| 1936 | #2,854 | 7 |
| 1935 | #1,837 | 15 |
| 1934 | #1,783 | 16 |
| 1933 | #2,093 | 12 |
| 1932 | #1,716 | 18 |
| 1931 | #2,003 | 14 |
| 1930 | #2,079 | 14 |
| 1929 | #1,848 | 17 |
| 1928 | #2,048 | 15 |
| 1927 | #1,603 | 23 |
| 1926 | #1,846 | 18 |
| 1925 | #1,679 | 21 |
| 1924 | #1,628 | 23 |
| 1923 | #1,502 | 25 |
| 1922 | #1,333 | 30 |
| 1921 | #1,766 | 20 |
| 1920 | #2,459 | 12 |
| 1919 | #1,351 | 28 |
| 1918 | #1,767 | 19 |
| 1917 | #2,188 | 13 |
| 1916 | #2,043 | 14 |
| 1915 | #2,458 | 10 |
| 1914 | #1,975 | 11 |
| 1913 | #2,092 | 8 |
| 1912 | #2,269 | 6 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Waldon! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1953, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Waldon is popular in 1924
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Kentucky#475 · 1 in 5,389
Best ever in a state: #475 in Kentucky, 1924.
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| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Kentucky | #475 | 5 | 1 in 5,389 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Waldon
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
- Debuted 1912
- Peaked 1922 at #1,333 (30 births)
- Births halved by 1928, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 35,004 boys born in 1919 were named Waldon (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,333 in 1922, was only 1 in 36,272 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.4% of all boys named Waldon (204) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 109 | #1,351 (1919) | #2,018 |
| 1920s | 204 | #1,333 (1922) | #1,771 |
| 1930s | 123 | #1,716 (1932) | #2,223 |
| 1940s | 116 | #1,736 (1940) | #2,220 |
| 1950s | 64 | #2,207 (1950) | #3,056 |
| 1960s | 41 | #2,242 (1961) | #3,182 |
| 1970s | 17 | #4,230 (1970) | #4,654 |
| 1980s | 7 | #5,751 (1988) | #5,751 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 0 | — | — |
| 2010s | 0 | — | — |
| 2020s | 12 | #9,714 (2021) | #11,032 |
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.
Waldon in 1924
Top boys' names in 1924
More about 1924
boys
1,132,742 boys got a published name in 1924; 1 in 49,250 of them was named Waldon, which outranked 67.2% of the 4,970 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 32.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,577Wilbern24
- #1,577Wilborn24
- #1,577Worley24
- #1,628Waldon23
- #1,628Alger23
- #1,628Almer23
- #1,628Antoine23
- #1,675Adron22
- #1,675Alferd22
- #1,675Amadeo22
Tied with 46 names at #1,628; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.