girls:
418 births since 1915
#5298 (7th percentile)
overall:
418 births since 1915
#7321 (5th percentile)
The name Wanza is the #7,321 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 418 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 5.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 5.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,298 (7.3% percentile) for all time with 418 births since 1915.
Wanza first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (first recorded for girls in 1915). Birth data for Wanza is available in 46 out of the 51 years between 1915 and 1965. 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 girls, Wanza reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #531) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1915, with 32 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1965.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wanza".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Wanza is pronounced as WAHN-zuh, which has 2 syllables.
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