Waleska
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 18 births
- Debut · girls
- 8 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 542since 1962
Waleska over time
Rank among girls' names. Waleska has never cracked the top 3,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #8,443 | 12 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 |
| 2021 | #10,292 | 9 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #8,597 | 12 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
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| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 |
| 2009 | #9,975 | 11 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 |
| 2005 | #16,462 | 5 |
| 2004 | #11,624 | 8 |
| 2003 | — | |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 |
| 2000 | #15,031 | 5 |
| 1999 | #8,805 | 10 |
| 1998 | #11,138 | 7 |
| 1997 | #10,836 | 7 |
| 1996 | #13,518 | 5 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 |
| 1993 | #8,719 | 9 |
| 1992 | #10,479 | 7 |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #5,049 | 17 |
| 1988 | #6,666 | 11 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 |
| 1986 | #5,459 | 13 |
| 1985 | #5,348 | 13 |
| 1984 | #4,318 | 17 |
| 1983 | #5,148 | 13 |
| 1982 | #5,209 | 13 |
| 1981 | #3,739 | 21 |
| 1980 | #5,544 | 12 |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
| 1977 | #4,942 | 13 |
| 1976 | #4,614 | 13 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 |
| 1974 | #5,011 | 11 |
| 1973 | #4,362 | 13 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #5,136 | 10 |
| 1970 | #4,246 | 13 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | — | |
| 1967 | #4,053 | 11 |
| 1966 | #3,959 | 11 |
| 1965 | #5,817 | 6 |
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| 1963 | #4,539 | 9 |
| 1962 | #4,865 | 8 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Waleska! It came in at #4,865, and was given to 8 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1964, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Waleska is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,044 · 1 in 12,316
Best ever in a state: #880 in New York, 1984.
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| New York | #1,044 | 9 | 1 in 12,316 |
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See more about Waleska
- 2,474 spots since 2024 (#8,443 → #10,917)
- 2,536 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1962
- Peaked 1972 at #3,404 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1978, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 79,431 girls born in 1981 were named Waleska (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,404 in 1972, was only 1 in 84,514 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 25.8% of all girls named Waleska (140) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 50 | #3,959 (1966) | #5,117 |
| 1970s | 129 | #3,404 (1972) | #4,708 |
| 1980s | 140 | #3,739 (1981) | #5,327 |
| 1990s | 80 | #8,122 (1994) | #9,916 |
| 2000s | 60 | #9,975 (2009) | #14,040 |
| 2010s | 28 | #8,597 (2019) | #13,963 |
| 2020s | 55 | #8,055 (2023) | #10,567 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Waleska in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 84,514 of them was named Waleska, which outranked 64.8% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #3,276Vincenza19
- #3,276Yecenia19
- #3,276Yoland19
- #3,404Waleska18
- #3,404Adrien18
- #3,404Alane18
- #3,404Annika18
- #3,543Abena17
- #3,543Alex17
- #3,543Alicea17
Tied with 138 names at #3,404; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.