Waverley
#7,862 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Waverley has been given to 252 babies in the U.S. since 1995. In 2025 it ranked #7,862 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 27 recorded.
Babies named Waverley, 2025
1 in 237,000
Waverley 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Waverley?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 237,000
- 14 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 115,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #7,862
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 164,137 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Waverley 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 164,137 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Waverley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Waverleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Waverley was born before 2020 — so the typical Waverley is around 5 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 56.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 97.9%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 241
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 56.4% of all recorded uses (136).
Is Waverley 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
- −2,266
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,796
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +556
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.00×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 51.9%
- Peak was 2022 (27)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.2% average annual change
Spellings of Waverley
Waverley is not the most common spelling — Beverley is, with 62.2% against Waverley's 1.1%.
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 Waverley is used
Across 1910–2025, Waverley was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 905,058 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Georgia1 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. Waverley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Waverley around the world
Where Waverley 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 & Wales2019–2023#5,688in 2023
- Canada2017–2021#2,202in 2021
- South Australia1999–2008#796in 2008
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Waverley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Waverley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Waverley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.