Waneta

Where Waneta comes from

Waneta hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1895
    First appearance
    #1,426 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1923
    Peak, #724
    101 babies named Waneta — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1934
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #981.
  4. 1946
    Waneta Hoyt born
    American serial killer
  5. 1968
    Waneta Storms born
    Canadian actress
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Waneta Hoyt · American serial killer, 1946–1998
  • Waneta Storms · Canadian actress, born 1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.