Girl Names That Start With W
Girls' names beginning with W, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 1.1%
- vs 0.20% in 2000
- Names in use
- 152
- 654 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1927
- at 1.5% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #21
- by 2025 share
How W has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with W, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 165#1,347 | Down 159 rank positions in five years | 1967 | |||
| 41#3,704 | Up 133 rank positions in five years | 1925 | |||
| 238#1,046 | Down 105 rank positions in five years | 1986 | |||
| 4,763#44 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 284#923 | Up 181 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 742#422 | Down 72 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 646#475 | Up 296 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 732#426 | Down 111 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 1,331#231 | Up 129 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 141#1,517 | Up 312 rank positions in five years | 1916 | |||
| 466#627 | Up 794 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 676#457 | Down 81 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 420#677 | Up 269 rank positions in five years | 1988 | |||
| 1,858#159 | Up 735 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 70#2,540 | Up 550 rank positions in five years | 1918 | |||
| 244#1,028 | Down 292 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 61#2,820 | Up 1,929 rank positions in five years | 1930 | |||
| 101#1,926 | Up 50 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 851#358 | Up 1,675 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 32#4,455 | Down 202 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 37#3,969 | Down 1,629 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 120#1,709 | Up 730 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 414#685 | Up 3,758 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 145#1,483 | Up 670 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 140#1,524 | Up 573 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 61#2,819 | Up 724 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,961 | Up 1,374 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 189#1,205 | Up 1,682 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 199#1,169 | Up 1,889 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 49#3,247 | Up 525 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 65#2,689 | Up 706 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 43#3,571 | Down 1,133 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 78#2,353 | Up 2,089 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 36#4,062 | Down 617 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 76#2,386 | Up 1,060 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 63#2,750 | Up 697 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 34#4,261 | Up 277 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 30#4,657 | Down 749 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 41#3,705 | Up 547 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 112#1,806 | Up 7,701 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 52#3,128 | Up 2,345 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 110#1,832 | Up 2,916 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 74#2,435 | Up 2,719 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 26#5,089 | Up 1,213 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 29#4,749 | Up 4,168 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 41#3,706 | Up 3,837 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 45#3,453 | Up 4,491 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 59#2,893 | Up 5,050 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 39#3,828 | Up 4,551 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 61#2,818 | new | 2025 |
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W names climbing fastest
Biggest W names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.