girls:
281.2k births since 1880
#137 (98th percentile)
boys:
972 births since 1917
#3620 (21st percentile)
overall:
282.1k births since 1880
#277 (96th percentile)
The name Wanda is the #277 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 282,140 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #137 (97.6% percentile) for all time with 281,168 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,620 (21.0% percentile) for all time with 972 births since 1917.
Wanda has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1917 for boys).
The name Wanda has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.7% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Wanda reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 92.7% percentile (ranked #52) with 3,916 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 4,080 births per million (ranked 91.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Wanda ranks #931 for girls (1.7% percentile) with 12 births per million, which is 0.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Wanda reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 4.6% percentile (ranked #617) with 17 births per million. The name was most common in 1934, with 25 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1987.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wanda".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wanda. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wanda is pronounced as WAHN-duh, which has 2 syllables.
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