Wanna

Last seen for girls in 1967 at #6,042

Peak · girls
1933 · 22 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
550
since 1907

Wanna over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wanna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201941peak #1,606, 1933girls
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1967#6,0426
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1964#6,7675
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1962#4,5339
1961#5,8516
1960#5,6966
1959#5,5666
1958#5,4086
1957#4,2029
1956#4,8377
1955#5,8285
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1953#3,68710
1952#4,4837
1951#4,0118
1950#3,6629
1949#3,8928
1948#5,2435
1947#4,0078
1946#4,4176
1945#3,1329
1944#3,1399
1943#4,6915
1942#3,7387
1941#2,53212
1940#2,29713
1939#2,41712
1938#2,57911
1937#2,19614
1936#1,87317
1935#2,09515
1934#2,08715
1933#1,60622
1932#1,95717
1931#2,58111
1930#2,11016
1929#2,30114
1928#2,28415
1927#2,16917
1926#1,83022
1925#2,28316
1924#1,92621
1923#1,84022
1922#2,47914
1921#2,50914
1920#2,59013
1919#2,38414
1918#3,8697
1917#3,0929
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First appearance
1907

The first year at least five girls were named Wanna! It came in at #2,061, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1907–1912, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Wanna is popular in 1941

No state had 5 or more girls named Wanna in 1941, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wanna
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1967
Rise & fade · girls
26 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1907
  • Peaked 1933 at #1,606 (22 births)
  • Births halved by 1938, 5 yrs 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 45,815
  • Highest: 1 in 45,815 girls born in 1933 were named Wanna (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 275,171 girls born in 1967 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 30.5% of all girls named Wanna (168) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s5#2,061 (1907)#2,061
1910s46#2,265 (1914)#2,887
1920s168#1,830 (1926)#2,221
1930s150#1,606 (1933)#2,150
1940s82#2,297 (1940)#3,709
1950s67#3,662 (1950)#4,632
1960s32#4,533 (1962)#5,778

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.

Wanna in 1941

girls
#2,532
12 births · 1 in 100,677 girls

Top girls' names in 1941

  1. #1Mary58,048
  2. #2Barbara39,543
  3. #3Patricia36,905
  4. #4Carol24,187
  5. #5Linda23,721
  6. #6Judith23,320
  7. #7Betty20,905
  8. #8Nancy20,885
  9. #9Sandra19,500
  10. #10Shirley16,954
  11. #2,532Wanna12
More about 1941

girls

1,208,119 girls got a published name in 1941; 1 in 100,677 of them was named Wanna, which outranked 50.2% of the 5,085 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wanna
  1. #2,397Virgene13
  2. #2,397Vona13
  3. #2,397Wynette13
  4. #2,532Wanna12
  5. #2,532Aletta12
  6. #2,532Allyn12
  7. #2,532Alvin12
  8. #2,668Albertina11
  9. #2,668Alethea11
  10. #2,668Alix11

Tied with 135 names at #2,532; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1940
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,130Jerilyn#2,737 → #607
  2. ↑ 1,258Trina#2,109 → #851
  3. ↑ 372Karan#1,347 → #975
  4. ↑ 371Kristine#1,313 → #942
  5. ↑ 356Sherri#1,186 → #830
Fallers
  1. ↓ 447Kenneth#971 → #1,418
  2. ↓ 421Janna#997 → #1,418
  3. ↓ 366Beatriz#989 → #1,355
  4. ↓ 338Merna#997 → #1,335
  5. ↓ 337Eldora#957 → #1,294

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

See the top 100 for 1941 →