Wana

Last seen for girls in 1965 at #6,539

Peak · girls
1927 · 14 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
195
since 1915

Wana over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wana has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201927peak #2,433, 1927girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1965#6,5395
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1963#6,5925
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1927#2,43314
1926#3,2699
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five girls were named Wana! It came in at #4,274, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Wana is popular in 1927

No state had 5 or more girls named Wana in 1927, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wana
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1965
Rise & fade · girls
12 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1927 at #2,433 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 1928, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 85,174
  • Highest: 1 in 85,174 girls born in 1927 were named Wana (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 353,033 girls born in 1965 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 47.2% of all girls named Wana (92) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s11#4,083 (1917)#4,179
1920s92#2,433 (1927)#3,423
1930s34#2,972 (1931)#3,626
1940s16#3,863 (1940)#4,414
1950s23#4,376 (1955)#4,495
1960s19#4,546 (1961)#5,892

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.

Wana in 1927

girls
#2,433
14 births · 1 in 85,174 girls

Top girls' names in 1927

  1. #1Mary70,642
  2. #2Dorothy35,993
  3. #3Betty35,424
  4. #4Helen25,316
  5. #5Margaret21,964
  6. #6Ruth19,412
  7. #7Doris16,512
  8. #8Virginia15,734
  9. #9Shirley13,314
  10. #10Barbara13,161
  11. #2,433Wana14
More about 1927

girls

1,192,431 girls got a published name in 1927; 1 in 85,174 of them was named Wana, which outranked 56.6% of the 5,602 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wana
  1. #2,339Zelphia15
  2. #2,339Zeta15
  3. #2,339Zilpha15
  4. #2,433Wana14
  5. #2,433Adrian14
  6. #2,433Agapita14
  7. #2,433Aldene14
  8. #2,552Agness13
  9. #2,552Aileene13
  10. #2,552Aleda13

Tied with 118 names at #2,433; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1926
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,708Charmaine#3,564 → #856
  2. ↑ 1,519Kazuko#2,474 → #955
  3. ↑ 1,152Valencia#2,076 → #924
  4. ↑ 551Cherie#1,414 → #863
  5. ↑ 452Lita#1,148 → #696
Fallers
  1. ↓ 349Janell#748 → #1,097
  2. ↓ 330Sabina#931 → #1,261
  3. ↓ 319Clarine#942 → #1,261
  4. ↓ 298Shirlie#980 → #1,278
  5. ↓ 291Delilah#836 → #1,127

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1927 →