Wateen
#1,796 for girls in 2025, 112 births
- Peak · girls
- 2025 · 112 births
- Debut · girls
- 9 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 378since 2012
Wateen over time
Rank among girls' names. Wateen has never cracked the top 1,000 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 | #1,796 | 112 |
| 2024 | #2,462 | 73 |
| 2023 | #2,757 | 62 |
| 2022 | #3,827 | 39 |
| 2021 | #8,978 | 11 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #8,617 | 12 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Wateen! It came in at #11,257, and was given to 9 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2017, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Wateen is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#374 · 1 in 1,554
- New York#859 · 1 in 4,352
- Illinois#927 · 1 in 4,925
- California#1,491 · 1 in 10,782
- Texas#3,285 · 1 in 32,108
Best ever in a state: #374 in Michigan, 2025.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #374 | 23 | 1 in 1,554 |
| New York | #859 | 18 | 1 in 4,352 |
| Illinois | #927 | 9 | 1 in 4,925 |
| California | #1,491 | 15 | 1 in 10,782 |
| Texas | #3,285 | 5 | 1 in 32,108 |
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See more about Wateen
- 666 spots since 2024 (#2,462 → #1,796)
- 7,157 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #1,796)
- 10,039 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #1,796)
- Debuted 2012
- Peaked 2025 at #1,796 (112 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 14,351 girls born in 2025 were named Wateen (0.01%)
- 81.5% of all girls named Wateen (308) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | 70 | #8,053 (2014) | #10,703 |
| 2020s | 308 | #1,796 (2025) | #4,796 |
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.
Wateen in 2025
Top girls' names in 2025
More about 2025
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1,607,267 girls got a published name in 2025; 1 in 14,351 of them was named Wateen, which outranked 89.6% of the 17,297 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880).
- #1,777Shayla113
- #1,777Tess113
- #1,777Yesly113
- #1,796Wateen112
- #1,796Astraea112
- #1,796Aysha112
- #1,796Brinlee112
- #1,808Amaria111
- #1,808Amiya111
- #1,808Austin111
Tied with 11 names at #1,796; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.