Wave
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births · #3,314 for boys in 2025, 35 births
Given to boys 52.1% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 37 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 126since 2020
Wave over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 | #3,314 | 35 |
| 2024 | #15,293 | 5 | #3,216 | 37 |
| 2023 | — | #4,220 | 25 | |
| 2022 | #13,592 | 6 | #5,874 | 15 |
| 2021 | — | #8,825 | 8 | |
| 2020 | — | #10,605 | 6 | |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
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| 1924 | #3,665 | 8 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
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| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 | — | |
| 1918 | #2,822 | 11 | — | |
| 1917 | #2,693 | 11 | — | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Wave! It came in at #10,605, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2020–2021, when fewer than 9 boys a year got the name.
See more about Wave
- 98 spots since 2024 (#3,216 → #3,314)
- 7,291 spots since 2020 (#10,605 → #3,314)
- Debuted 2020
- Peaked 2024 at #3,216 (37 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 46,565 boys born in 2024 were named Wave (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,802 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 100.0% of all boys named Wave (126) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2019, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020s | 126 | #3,216 (2024) | #6,009 |
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.
Wave in 2024
Top girls' names in 2024
Top boys' names in 2024
More about 2024
girls
1,620,190 girls got a published name in 2024; 1 in 324,038 of them was named Wave, which outranked 13.7% of the 17,726 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 2,433 names at #15,293; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,722,888 boys got a published name in 2024; 1 in 46,565 of them was named Wave, which outranked 77.5% of the 14,294 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,161Zebedee38
- #3,161Ziyad38
- #3,161Zyhir38
- #3,216Wave37
- #3,216Aahan37
- #3,216Adams37
- #3,216Akil37
- #3,272Adi36
- #3,272Aldair36
- #3,272Arik36
Tied with 55 names at #3,216; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.