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Waneta

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Waneta has been given to 2,466 babies in the U.S. since 1895. 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 1923, with 101 recorded.

Babies named Waneta, 2022

1 in 564,000

Waneta 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Waneta: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Waneta means

Waneta is a given name.

The naming story behind Waneta

Wikidata records Waneta as a given name. The entity identifier is Q17519137, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,466 girls were recorded with the name Waneta between 1895 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 101 in 1923; its best national rank was #726 in 1923.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Waneta?

Waneta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Waneta 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waneta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wanetas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Waneta was born before 1928 — so the typical Waneta is around 97 today.

Median birth year
1928
About 97 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.65%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
357
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1920s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (793).

Is Waneta 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 1923 (101)
Years since peak
102
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#726
1923

Spellings of Waneta

Waneta is not the most common spelling — Janet is, with 49.2% against Waneta's 0.22%.

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.

Where Waneta is used

Across 1910–2025, Waneta was most concentrated in Indiana — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 54,838 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Indiana1 in 11,111
  2. 2Kansas1 in 20,000
  3. 3West Virginia1 in 20,000
  4. 4Ohio1 in 33,333
  5. 5Iowa1 in 50,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 50,000
  7. 7Missouri1 in 50,000
  8. 8Vermont1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Waneta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Waneta

People whose public names include Waneta, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Waneta 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
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Best rank ever
#726
1923
Peak year
1923
101 that year
First recorded
1895
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
2,466
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Waneta

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

WanitaAlmetaWaniyaWanettaAletaLavetaWaniaLoretaVioletaWandraZetaArletaLoletaZanetaSyreetaWannaJulietaVenetaFleetaCletaOnetaWanzaValetaFleta

Names with a curve like Waneta

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Waneta, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DimpleArdellNaomaRozellaTheolaNeomaLaveraFreedaHaroldLavernaAlmetaLarue

Sibling names for Waneta

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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