Wateen
#1,806 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wateen has been given to 378 babies in the U.S. since 2012. In 2025 it ranked #1,806 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 112 recorded.
Babies named Wateen, 2025
1 in 29,600
Wateen 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Wateen?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 29,600
- 112 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 14,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #1,806
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 20,518 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wateen sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 20,518 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wateen. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wateens were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wateen was born before 2023 — so the typical Wateen is around 2 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 81.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 378
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 81.5% of all recorded uses (308).
Is Wateen 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
- +683
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +7,701
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +11,129
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 14.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (112)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 66.2% average annual change
Spellings of Wateen
Wateen is not the most common spelling — Janeen is, with 32.4% against Wateen's 1.9%.
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 Wateen is used
Across 1910–2025, Wateen was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 320,634 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Michigan1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4New York1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
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. Wateen has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Wateen around the world
Where Wateen 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 & Wales2013–2025#642in 2025
- Scotland2023–2024#541in 2024
- Northern Ireland2025–2025#397in 2025
- Ireland2023–2025#718in 2025
- France2021–2025#1,368in 2025
- Canada2020–2024#1,109in 2024
- South Australia2005–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Wateen by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Wateen
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wateen
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.