boys:
780 births since 1908
#3807 (17th percentile)
overall:
780 births since 1908
#6959 (10th percentile)
The name Waddell is the #6,959 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 780 recorded births since 1908. This represents the 10.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 10.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,807 (16.9% percentile) for all time with 780 births since 1908.
Waddell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1908 (first recorded for boys in 1908). Birth data for Waddell is available in 72 out of the 83 years between 1908 and 1990. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Waddell reached its peak popularity in 1947, achieving the 2.9% percentile (ranked #580) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 34 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1990.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Waddell".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Waddell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.7% confident that Waddell is pronounced as wah-DEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is wuh-DEHL, at 19.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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