Wannie
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wannie has been given to 50 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1916, with 6 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 78% girls, 22% boys all-time.
Babies named Wannie, 1940
1 in 461,000
Wannie 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Wannie over time
In 1940, Wannie went to 45% girls and 55% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Wannie?
Wannie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1940, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1940
- 1 in 461,000
- 5 of 2,302,666 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1940
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 319,218 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wannie sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1940 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 319,218 children born in 1940 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wannie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wannies were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wannie was born before 1921 — so the typical Wannie is around 104 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 43.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 43.6% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Wannie 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1916 (6)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 20.0% average annual change
Spellings of Wannie
Wannie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 17.6% against Wannie's <0.01%.
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.
Wannie by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Wannie
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wannie
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.