Wava

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Wava has been given to 1,727 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1924, with 60 recorded.

Babies named Wava, 1987

1 in 515,000

Wava over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wava: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wava means

Wava is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Wava is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,727 girls were recorded with the name Wava between 1892 and 1987. Its highest annual count was 60 in 1924; its best national rank was #967 in 1905.

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.

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How common is Wava?

Wava had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1987, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1987: 1 in 515,000; 7 of 3,605,072 births
Among girls only: 1 in 248,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1987: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 356,979 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Wava 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 1987 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 356,979 children born in 1987 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wava. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wavas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wava was born before 1927 — so the typical Wava is around 98 today.

Median birth year: 1927; About 98 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 28.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 1.3%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 171; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 28.7% of all recorded uses (495).

Is Wava 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 1924 (60)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 25.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #967; 1905

Spellings of Wava

Wava is not the most common spelling — Sara is, with 14.7% against Wava's 0.06%.

Sara14.7%436,193
Ava11.6%344,097
Eva9.6%284,761
Wanda9.5%281,214
Dana6.5%193,555
Tara5.9%175,812
Maya4.2%123,587
Ana3.7%111,359

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 Wava is used

Across 1910–2025, Wava was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 109,981 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Iowa1 in 50,000
2Indiana1 in 50,000
3Kansas1 in 100,000
4Kentucky1 in 100,000
5Michigan1 in 100,000
6Ohio1 in 100,000
7South Dakota1 in 100,000
8Georgia1 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. Wava has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wava 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: —
Best rank ever: #967; 1905
Peak year: 1924; 60 that year
First recorded: 1892
Last recorded: 1987
All-time count: 1,727
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Wava

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

Nava Dava Wave Chava Hava Waverly Ahava Zahava Aava Tava Naava Wavie Mava Waverley Nyava Zehava Waver Deava Wavel Miroslava Rava Waverlee Gustava Lava

Sibling names for Wava

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Rosina Kattie Lavon Blanch Jaunita Vernell Dorris Leonora

For a brother

Alvis Eldridge Merritt Lacy Delmer Elwin Domenick Hosea

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