Waitman
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Waitman has been given to 48 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1924, with 9 recorded.
Babies named Waitman, 1948
1 in 690,000
Waitman over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Waitman?
Waitman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1948, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1948
- 1 in 690,000
- 5 of 3,452,053 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 351,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 1948
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 478,557 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Waitman sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1948 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 478,557 children born in 1948 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waitman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Waitmans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Waitman was born before 1922 — so the typical Waitman is around 103 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 41.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 39.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 41.7% of all recorded uses (20).
Is Waitman 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 1924 (9)
- Years since peak
- 101
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 48.3% average annual change
Spellings of Waitman
Waitman is not the most common spelling — Wayman is, with 75.0% against Waitman's 1.3%.
Where Waitman is used
Across 1910–2025, Waitman was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 265,479 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1West Virginia1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Waitman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Waitman by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Waitman
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Waitman
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.