Wanya
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wanya has been given to 501 babies in the U.S. since 1992. 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 1996, with 95 recorded.
Babies named Wanya, 2024
1 in 669,000
Wanya 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Wanya?
Wanya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wanya sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wanya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wanyas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wanya was born before 1998 — so the typical Wanya is around 27 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 64.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 484
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 64.0% of all recorded uses (310).
Is Wanya 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1996 (95)
- Years since peak
- 29
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 100.7% average annual change
Spellings of Wanya
Wanya is not the most common spelling — Dana is, with 73.0% against Wanya's 0.66%.
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 Wanya is used
Across 1910–2025, Wanya was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 572,229 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 in 100,000
- 2Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 3Alabama1 in —
- 4California1 in —
- 5Florida1 in —
- 6Illinois1 in —
- 7Louisiana1 in —
- 8Maryland1 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. Wanya has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Wanya by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Wanya
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wanya
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.