Wanette

Last seen for girls in 1973 at #8,423

Peak · girls
1957 · 10 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
85
since 1947

Wanette over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wanette has never cracked the top 3,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #3,930, 1957girls
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First appearance
1947

The first year at least five girls were named Wanette! It came in at #5,295, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1949–1953, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Wanette is popular in 1970

No state had 5 or more girls named Wanette in 1970, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wanette
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1973
Rise & fade · girls
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1947
  • Peaked 1957 at #3,930 (10 births)
  • Births halved by 1958, 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 134,473
  • Highest: 1 in 134,473 girls born in 1970 were named Wanette (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 291,642 girls born in 1973 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #3,930 in 1957, was only 1 in 204,485 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 29.4% of all girls named Wanette (25) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s11#4,651 (1948)#4,973
1950s25#3,930 (1957)#4,382
1960s25#5,168 (1960)#5,923
1970s24#4,246 (1970)#6,686

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.

Wanette in 1970

girls
#4,246
13 births · 1 in 134,473 girls

Top girls' names in 1970

  1. #1Jennifer46,150
  2. #2Lisa38,967
  3. #3Kimberly34,130
  4. #4Michelle34,047
  5. #5Amy25,212
  6. #6Angela24,929
  7. #7Melissa23,735
  8. #8Tammy19,587
  9. #9Mary19,204
  10. #10Tracy18,464
  11. #4,246Wanette13
More about 1970

girls

1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 134,473 of them was named Wanette, which outranked 54.6% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wanette
  1. #4,038Veronika14
  2. #4,038Zella14
  3. #4,038Zondra14
  4. #4,246Wanette13
  5. #4,246Alda13
  6. #4,246Alfredia13
  7. #4,246Alisande13
  8. #4,492Adonna12
  9. #4,492Agustina12
  10. #4,492Alaine12

Tied with 245 names at #4,246; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,541Tanisha#2,515 → #974
  2. ↑ 1,194India#1,955 → #761
  3. ↑ 695Shay#1,648 → #953
  4. ↑ 685Terra#1,303 → #618
  5. ↑ 669Dyan#1,648 → #979
Fallers
  1. ↓ 385Cinnamon#698 → #1,083
  2. ↓ 306Kaye#932 → #1,238
  3. ↓ 303Luanne#990 → #1,293
  4. ↓ 273Laureen#845 → #1,118
  5. ↓ 273Lesia#965 → #1,238

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

See the top 100 for 1970 →