Waldon

Last seen for boys in 2024 at #12,349

Peak · boys
1922 · 30 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
693
since 1912

Waldon over time

boys

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201945peak #1,333, 1922boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025
2024#12,3495
2023
2022
2021#9,7147
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
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1988#5,7517
1987
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1975
1974#5,2275
1973#4,5056
1972
1971
1970#4,2306
1969
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1966
1965
1964#3,2827
1963#3,0448
1962#3,3057
1961#2,24214
1960#4,0385
1959#3,2907
1958#3,9445
1957#3,5526
1956
1955#3,5056
1954#2,9428
1953
1952#2,51410
1951#2,49510
1950#2,20712
1949#2,45310
1948#2,21812
1947#2,8628
1946#2,27111
1945#2,24210
1944#2,08012
1943#1,98614
1942#2,14512
1941#2,20711
1940#1,73616
1939#2,15911
1938#2,18511
1937#3,5185
1936#2,8547
1935#1,83715
1934#1,78316
1933#2,09312
1932#1,71618
1931#2,00314
1930#2,07914
1929#1,84817
1928#2,04815
1927#1,60323
1926#1,84618
1925#1,67921
1924#1,62823
1923#1,50225
1922#1,33330
1921#1,76620
1920#2,45912
1919#1,35128
1918#1,76719
1917#2,18813
1916#2,04314
1915#2,45810
1914#1,97511
1913#2,0928
1912#2,2696
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First appearance
1912

The first year at least five boys were named Waldon! It came in at #2,269, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1953, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Waldon
Momentum · boys
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2024
Rise & fade · boys
10 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1912
  • Peaked 1922 at #1,333 (30 births)
  • Births halved by 1928, 6 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 35,004
  • Highest: 1 in 35,004 boys born in 1919 were named Waldon (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 344,578 boys born in 2024 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,333 in 1922, was only 1 in 36,272 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 29.4% of all boys named Waldon (204) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s109#1,351 (1919)#2,018
1920s204#1,333 (1922)#1,771
1930s123#1,716 (1932)#2,223
1940s116#1,736 (1940)#2,220
1950s64#2,207 (1950)#3,056
1960s41#2,242 (1961)#3,182
1970s17#4,230 (1970)#4,654
1980s7#5,751 (1988)#5,751
1990s0
2000s0
2010s0
2020s12#9,714 (2021)#11,032

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.

Waldon in 1945

boys
#2,242
10 births · 1 in 134,586 boys

Top boys' names in 1945

  1. #1James74,464
  2. #2Robert69,947
  3. #3John66,117
  4. #4William50,218
  5. #5Richard46,046
  6. #6David37,110
  7. #7Charles32,469
  8. #8Thomas31,874
  9. #9Michael29,902
  10. #10Ronald23,665
  11. #2,242Waldon10
More about 1945

boys

1,345,855 boys got a published name in 1945; 1 in 134,586 of them was named Waldon, which outranked 40.7% of the 3,783 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 34.3% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Waldon
  1. #2,131Williard11
  2. #2,131Woodson11
  3. #2,131Zeke11
  4. #2,242Waldon10
  5. #2,242Abbott10
  6. #2,242Abdul10
  7. #2,242Alferd10
  8. #2,393Abelino9
  9. #2,393Abie9
  10. #2,393Addie9

Tied with 150 names at #2,242; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1944
Risers
  1. 527Delano#1,085#558
  2. 499Dane#1,235#736
  3. 385Eusebio#1,328#943
  4. 371Erick#1,235#864
  5. 311Gerardo#1,282#971
Fallers
  1. 479Joan#870#1,349
  2. 408Kit#841#1,249
  3. 392Llewellyn#935#1,327
  4. 361Valentine#888#1,249
  5. 321Hilario#906#1,227

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

See the top 100 for 1945