Wahneeta

Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Wahneeta has been given to 12 babies in the U.S. since 1918. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1918, with 6 recorded.

Babies named Wahneeta, 1923

1 in 384,000

Wahneeta over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Wahneeta?

Wahneeta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1923, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1923
1 in 384,000
6 of 2,302,410 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1923
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
265,986 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wahneeta sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1923 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 265,986 children born in 1923 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wahneeta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wahneetas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wahneeta was born before 1918 — so the typical Wahneeta is around 107 today.

Median birth year
1918
About 107 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
0
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1910s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (6).

Is Wahneeta rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1918 (6)
Years since peak
107
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,789
1918

Spellings of Wahneeta

Wahneeta is not the most common spelling — Waneta is, with 59.5% against Wahneeta's 0.29%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Wahneeta by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,789
1918
Peak year
1918
6 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
1923
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wahneeta

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Wahneeta

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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