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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Wai

Recorded for both sexesMillennial

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

174

peak year 1977

More common than

70%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1977
15 births
Best rank
#2,905
in 1977
First recorded
1970
#5,416 that year
Last recorded
1995
no later published record
Average birth year
1982
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
20 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 197715#2,905Peak
  2. 197613#3,090
  3. 198213#3,475
  4. 198413#3,451
  5. 198613#3,645

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,905 in 1977 · peak births 15 in 1977

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 66% boys■ 34% girls

174 boys · 88 girls, all time

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 Wai has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.