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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Waver

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

69

peak year 1927

More common than

57%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1927
10 births
Best rank
#3,280
in 1927
First recorded
1919
#4,238 that year
Last recorded
1955
no later published record
Average birth year
1930
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
10 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192710#3,280Peak
  2. 19269#3,551
  3. 19197#4,238
  4. 19227#4,430
  5. 19337#3,738

Rank over time

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

Best rank #3,280 in 1927 · peak births 10 in 1927

Boys and girls

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

● 14% boys■ 86% girls

11 boys · 69 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 Waver has ranked, decade by decade

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