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Wayne

Pronounced /weɪn/

Rank in 2024
#685
Born in 2024
394
Peak year
1947 · #30
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:0 in 2024

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 394 boys were named Wayne, about 1 in every 4,354.
  • It peaked in 1947 with 10,168 babies, ranked #30.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 354,385 boys have been named Wayne since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Wayne per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 2.0
    Greatest
  2. 4.1
    Silent
  3. 4.2
    Boomers
  4. 1.8
    Gen X
  5. 0.6
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.2
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 33,451 babies, 2.00 per 1,000. Silent: 85,281 babies, 4.13 per 1,000. Boomers: 156,811 babies, 4.18 per 1,000. Gen X: 49,084 babies, 1.80 per 1,000. Millennials: 18,860 babies, 0.62 per 1,000. Gen Z: 6,169 babies, 0.20 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,852 babies, 0.18 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

An occupational surname for a cartwright, Old English wægen (“wagon”). Cf. wain.

  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/weɪn/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Wayne, CC BY-SA 4.0.