Wayne · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Wayne.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1910

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 81 recorded years as a table

Wayne, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1910	15
1911	14
1912	13
1913	18
1914	8
1915	16
1916	13
1917	16
1918	20
1919	18
1920	17
1921	18
1922	14
1923	20
1924	18
1925	17
1926	14
1927	25
1928	25
1929	26
1930	25
1931	22
1932	24
1933	30
1934	14
1935	21
1936	14
1937	22
1938	27
1939	23
1940	17
1941	17
1942	16
1943	15
1944	11
1945	9
1946	12
1947	19
1948	10
1949	16
1950	11
1951	12
1952	10
1953	15
1954	19
1955	14
1956	16
1957	14
1958	14
1959	16
1960	12
1961	13
1962	15
1963	11
1964	12
1965	11
1966	14
1967	11
1968	9
1969	12
1970	16
1971	11
1972	9
1973	10
1974	16
1975	9
1976	8
1977	12
1978	12
1979	5
1980	5
1981	4
1982	7
1983	15
1984	9
1985	8
1986	10
1987	8
1988	9
1989	4
1992	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Wayne isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1992: 5
Rank in 1992: #13,317
How rare: 1 in 368,786 girls
Since 1910: 1,604

Wayne was last recorded in 1992. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1933, at 30 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Wayne doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.