Wave Girls

The U.S. popularity history of Wave: every year it appeared on the national list since 1897, with 116 recorded births in total. All figures come from official Social Security card application data.

Total recorded births

116

Peak year

1917 #2869

Years on the list

10-year trend

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In the 1910s ·

Popularity history

1897–2025

Year	Births	Rank
1900	6	#1925
1915	6	#4252
1916	7	#3909
1917	11	#2869
1918	11	#3019
1919	7	#4237
1920	6	#4957
1921	8	#4013
1922	6	#4992
1923	6	#4951
1924	8	#3994
1927	6	#4784
2022	6	#15190
2024	5	#17552
2025	5	#17125

Most recent years shown. The full curve above covers every year the name appeared.

Where {name} was most used in 1917

State-level records for this name and year are not published (names with fewer than 5 births in a state are suppressed).

Names from the same era

Rose · 1917 Gertrude · 1917 Lena · 1917 Jennie · 1917 Blanche · 1917 Della · 1917 Jeannette · 1917 Lucile · 1917 Nell · 1917 Zella · 1917

Names similar to Wave

Waver Girls Wavel Girls Waver Boys Wavely Boys Wavell Boys Waverly Girls Waverly Boys Waverli Girls Wavelyn Girls Wava Girls Wavy Boys Waverley Girls

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