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Waqas

Boys' name

Alternate transcription of Waqqas

Waqas has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1985. 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 1994, with 11 recorded.

Babies named Waqas, 1998

1 in 735,000

Waqas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Waqas: meaning, origin, and history

Alternate transcription of Waqqas

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Waqas means

Waqas is a alternate transcription of Waqqas.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Waqas is used in Arabic and Urdu.

Another recorded pronunciation is /waq.ˈqaːsˤ/ for Waqas.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Waqqas.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 72 boys were recorded with the name Waqas between 1985 and 1998. Its highest annual count was 11 in 1994; its best national rank was #5,184 in 1988.

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 Waqas?

Waqas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1998, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1998
1 in 735,000
5 of 3,677,189 births
Among boys only
1 in 382,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1998
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
509,768 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Waqas sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1998 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 509,768 children born in 1998 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waqas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waqass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Waqas was born before 1991 — so the typical Waqas is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
72.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
72
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1990s — 72.2% of all recorded uses (52).

Is Waqas 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (11)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,184
1988

Spellings of Waqas

Waqas is not the most common spelling — Anas is, with 57.7% against Waqas's 1.4%.

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 Waqas is used

Across 1910–2025, Waqas was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,664,768 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 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. Waqas has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Waqas around the world

Where Waqas ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    1990–1994
    #375
    in 1994
  • France
    1985–2025
    #6,404
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2011–2011
    #784
    in 2011

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Waqas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,184
1988
Peak year
1994
11 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
1998
All-time count
72
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Waqas

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

Waqar

Sibling names for Waqas

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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