Waunita

Last seen for girls in 1971 at #7,388

Peak · girls
1917 · 32 births
Debut · girls
8 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
865
since 1904

Waunita over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201919peak #1,281, 1917girls
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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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1971#7,3886
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1968#7,0165
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1962#5,2937
1961#5,3097
1960#4,7738
1959#5,5666
1958#6,1035
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1956#4,8377
1955#5,8285
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1953#5,0406
1952#3,7969
1951#3,48210
1950#3,6629
1949#4,2357
1948#4,6516
1947#3,24011
1946#3,21710
1945#2,06017
1944#2,28715
1943#2,69512
1942#2,81711
1941#1,95418
1940#2,57211
1939#2,59211
1938#1,94517
1937#2,10115
1936#3,1038
1935#2,09515
1934#1,91317
1933#1,47025
1932#1,81719
1931#1,45926
1930#1,40330
1929#1,44728
1928#2,19416
1927#1,42332
1926#1,88321
1925#1,37634
1924#1,38235
1923#1,42832
1922#1,61127
1921#1,57728
1920#1,55028
1919#1,80121
1918#1,64524
1917#1,28132
1916#1,86718
1915#1,40526
1914#1,66516
1913#1,88311
1912#2,3607
1911#1,30013
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First appearance
1904

The first year at least five girls were named Waunita! It came in at #1,364, and was given to 8 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1906–1908, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Waunita is popular in 1919

No state had 5 or more girls named Waunita in 1919, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Waunita
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1971
Rise & fade · girls
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1904
  • Peaked 1917 at #1,281 (32 births)
  • Births halved by 1928, 11 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 32,178
  • Highest: 1 in 32,178 girls born in 1911 were named Waunita (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 277,304 girls born in 1971 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,281 in 1917, was only 1 in 33,790 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1920s
  • 32.5% of all girls named Waunita (281) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1900s25#1,364 (1904)#1,770
1910s168#1,281 (1917)#1,690
1920s281#1,376 (1925)#1,587
1930s183#1,403 (1930)#1,990
1940s118#1,954 (1941)#2,973
1950s57#3,482 (1951)#4,789
1960s27#4,773 (1960)#5,598
1970s6#7,388 (1971)#7,388

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.

Waunita in 1919

girls
#1,801
21 births · 1 in 53,815 girls

Top girls' names in 1919

  1. #1Mary65,836
  2. #2Helen33,706
  3. #3Dorothy31,733
  4. #4Margaret26,238
  5. #5Ruth24,562
  6. #6Mildred17,300
  7. #7Virginia15,636
  8. #8Elizabeth15,287
  9. #9Frances15,106
  10. #10Anna14,498
  11. #1,801Waunita21
More about 1919

girls

1,130,117 girls got a published name in 1919; 1 in 53,815 of them was named Waunita, which outranked 67.6% of the 5,559 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Waunita
  1. #1,745Vinita22
  2. #1,745Vira22
  3. #1,745Willma22
  4. #1,801Waunita21
  5. #1,801Adrian21
  6. #1,801Alleen21
  7. #1,801Altie21
  8. #1,855Aleda20
  9. #1,855Alethia20
  10. #1,855Ammie20

Tied with 53 names at #1,801; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1918
Risers
  1. ↑ 851Gregoria#1,805 → #954
  2. ↑ 443Concha#1,333 → #890
  3. ↑ 390Arlena#1,299 → #909
  4. ↑ 353Marina#1,255 → #902
  5. ↑ 333Roselle#1,333 → #1,000
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,019Liberty#585 → #1,604
  2. ↓ 840Victory#809 → #1,649
  3. ↓ 567Karen#960 → #1,527
  4. ↓ 404Zena#989 → #1,393
  5. ↓ 359Malvina#989 → #1,348

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

See the top 100 for 1919 →