Wuanita

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Wuanita has been given to 15 babies in the U.S. since 1929. 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 1929, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Wuanita, 1942

1 in 546,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wuanita: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wuanita means

Wuanita is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Wuanita is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 15 girls were recorded with the name Wuanita between 1929 and 1942. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1929; its best national rank was #4,981 in 1938.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Wuanita?

Wuanita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1942, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1942: 1 in 546,000; 5 of 2,731,825 births
Among girls only: 1 in 270,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1942: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 378,713 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Wuanita 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 1942 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 378,713 children born in 1942 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wuanita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wuanitas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wuanita was born before 1938 — so the typical Wuanita is around 87 today.

Median birth year: 1938; About 87 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Wuanita 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 1929 (5)
Years since peak: 96; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,981; 1938

Spellings of Wuanita

Wuanita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 47.8% against Wuanita's <0.01%.

Anita47.8%215,165
Juanita46.1%207,684
Danita1.7%7,516
Lanita0.83%3,721
Shanita0.77%3,450
Wanita0.56%2,534
Waneta0.55%2,466
Vanita0.46%2,056

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.

Wuanita 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: #4,981; 1938
Peak year: 1929; 5 that year
First recorded: 1929
Last recorded: 1942
All-time count: 15
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Wuanita

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

Mwavita Loreita Chekita Mishita Norrita Lorrita Jequita Quenita Thalita Dannita Marvita Delrita Brigita Shavita Suchita Nikeita Narkita Shamita Margita Sanjita Veneita Nequita Takeita Tiquita

Sibling names for Wuanita

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

Marvel Socorro Ofelia Edward Billy Donald Ardith Bennie

For a brother

Normand Frances Carrol Sanford Jules Bud Rolland Gaylord

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