Waddell
Recorded for boysSilent Generation2025 rank
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not recorded in 2025
2025 births
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All-time births
780
peak year 1947
More common than
87%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1947
- 22 births
- Best rank
- #1,380
- in 1911
- First recorded
- 1908
- #1,578 that year
- Last recorded
- 1990
- no later published record
- Average birth year
- 1943
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 72 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 194722#1,644Peak
- 192420#1,837
- 194819#1,756
- 193318#1,703
- 191917#1,968
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #1,380 in 1911 · peak births 22 in 1947
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Waddell has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.