girls:
6 births since 1921
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
5.7k births since 1880
#1567 (66th percentile)
overall:
5.7k births since 1880
#3597 (54th percentile)
The name Waldo is the #3,597 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,717 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 53.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 53.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,567 (65.8% percentile) for all time with 5,711 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1921.
Waldo has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1921 for girls). Birth data for Waldo is available in 140 out of the 142 years between 1880 and 2021 (140 years for boys and 1 years for girls). 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.
The name Waldo has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Waldo reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 30.9% percentile (ranked #348) with 198 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 216 births per million (ranked 11.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2021.
For girls, Waldo reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #604) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1921, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1921.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Waldo".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Waldo. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.8% confident that Waldo is pronounced as WAWL-doh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WAHL-doh, at 36.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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