Wadell

Last seen for boys in 1995 at #8,868

Peak · boys
1932 · 14 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
316
since 1915

Wadell over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Wadell has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201915peak #1,995, 1932boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1995#8,8685
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1984#6,3155
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1979#6,0565
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1977#5,8455
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1971#4,9075
1970#4,7245
1969#3,9356
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1966#3,5376
1965#3,9305
1964
1963#4,0485
1962#2,67310
1961#4,0655
1960#2,8719
1959
1958#3,0338
1957#2,63110
1956#2,49711
1955#2,7649
1954#2,59210
1953#3,4256
1952#2,15313
1951#3,0667
1950#3,0217
1949#3,6905
1948
1947#3,0967
1946#3,1736
1945
1944#2,8627
1943
1942#2,38610
1941#3,1336
1940#3,4595
1939#2,4499
1938#2,4799
1937#2,9057
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1933#2,5429
1932#1,99514
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1929#3,9595
1928#3,6976
1927
1926#3,3857
1925#3,7416
1924#3,0239
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1921#3,8696
1920#3,8156
1919#2,66510
1918#4,1795
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1915#3,8255
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First appearance
1915

The first year at least five boys were named Wadell! It came in at #3,825, and was given to 5 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1915–1918, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.

See more about Wadell
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1995
Rise & fade · boys
17 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1915
  • Peaked 1932 at #1,995 (14 births)
  • Births halved by 1934, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 74,583
  • Highest: 1 in 74,583 boys born in 1932 were named Wadell (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 380,740 boys born in 1995 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1950s
  • 25.6% of all boys named Wadell (81) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s20#2,665 (1919)#3,556
1920s45#3,023 (1924)#3,641
1930s48#1,995 (1932)#2,474
1940s46#2,386 (1942)#3,114
1950s81#2,153 (1952)#2,798
1960s46#2,673 (1962)#3,580
1970s20#4,724 (1970)#5,383
1980s5#6,315 (1984)#6,315
1990s5#8,868 (1995)#8,868

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wadell in 1915

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#3,825
5 births · 1 in 169,715 boys

Top boys' names in 1915

  1. #1John47,576
  2. #2William38,563
  3. #3James33,773
  4. #4Robert28,737
  5. #5Joseph23,051
  6. #6George22,307
  7. #7Charles21,960
  8. #8Edward15,889
  9. #9Frank15,006
  10. #10Thomas11,490
  11. #3,825Wadell5
More about 1915

boys

848,575 boys got a published name in 1915; 1 in 169,715 of them was named Wadell, which outranked 12.9% of the 4,390 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 30.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wadell
  1. #3,392Yaro6
  2. #3,392Zebedee6
  3. #3,392Zolton6
  4. #3,825Wadell5
  5. #3,825Abb5
  6. #3,825Abert5
  7. #3,825Abran5

Tied with 565 names at #3,825; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1914
Risers
  1. 691Eston#1,687#996
  2. 565Estill#1,545#980
  3. 545Garth#1,260#715
  4. 474Hiroshi#1,342#868
  5. 439Domingo#1,101#662
Fallers
  1. 674Gilmore#986#1,660
  2. 667Barnett#933#1,600
  3. 526Rose#884#1,410
  4. 517Toivo#855#1,372
  5. 461Sampson#949#1,410

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1915