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Wayman

Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Wayman has been given to 2,850 babies in the U.S. since 1884. 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 1950, with 59 recorded.

Babies named Wayman, 2010

1 in 528,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wayman: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wayman means

Wayman is a given name.

The naming story behind Wayman

Wikidata records Wayman as a given name. The entity identifier is Q75169981, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,850 boys were recorded with the name Wayman between 1884 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 59 in 1950; its best national rank was #735 in 1900.

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 Wayman?

Wayman had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 528,000
7 of 3,695,928 births
Among boys only
1 in 274,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
365,976 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wayman 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 2010 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 365,976 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wayman. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Waymans were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wayman was born before 1945 — so the typical Wayman is around 80 today.

Median birth year
1945
About 80 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
16.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,229
People you could plausibly meet
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1950s — 16.6% of all recorded uses (472).

Is Wayman 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1950 (59)
Years since peak
75
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#735
1900

Spellings of Wayman

Wayman is not the most common spelling — Waylon is, with 29.8% against Wayman's 1.5%.

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 Wayman is used

Across 1910–2025, Wayman was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 33,333 boys, against 1 in 173,283 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Georgia1 in 33,333
  3. 3South Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 100,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 100,000
  6. 6Alabama1 in —
  7. 7California1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 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. Wayman has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wayman around the world

Where Wayman 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.

  • South Australia
    1951–1990
    #484
    in 1990

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Wayman

People whose public names include Wayman, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Wayman 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
#735
1900
Peak year
1950
59 that year
First recorded
1884
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
2,850
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wayman

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

WaylenWaymonWaylanWaydeWaylandSalmanWaylinFermanAymanRahmanKalmanLuqmanHarmanColmanTillmanBowmanCaymanOsmanWaylynArmanUsmanSolomanFurmanGerman

Names with a curve like Wayman

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Wayman, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

EzellLenwoodCurleyHarrellLintonAuthurWillamJonnieRaoulHeywardDeaneWelton

Sibling names for Wayman

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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