Wadell Popularity by Year

Follow Wadell across every available national year. Rankings and birth counts remain separated by the source dataset’s girl and boy categories.

Wadell birth-count history

The chart samples long histories for faster loading. The complete table below includes every recorded year.

Year	Category	Births	Rank	Change from previous recorded year
1995	Boys	5	#8,868	Down 2,553 places
1984	Boys	5	#6,315	Down 259 places
1979	Boys	5	#6,056	Down 211 places
1977	Boys	5	#5,845	Down 938 places
1971	Boys	5	#4,907	Down 183 places
1970	Boys	5	#4,724	Down 789 places
1969	Boys	6	#3,935	Down 398 places
1966	Boys	6	#3,537	Up 393 places
1965	Boys	5	#3,930	Up 118 places
1963	Boys	5	#4,048	Down 1,375 places
1962	Boys	10	#2,673	Up 1,392 places
1961	Boys	5	#4,065	Down 1,194 places
1960	Boys	9	#2,871	Up 162 places
1958	Boys	8	#3,033	Down 402 places
1957	Boys	10	#2,631	Down 134 places
1956	Boys	11	#2,497	Up 267 places
1955	Boys	9	#2,764	Down 172 places
1954	Boys	10	#2,592	Up 833 places
1953	Boys	6	#3,425	Down 1,272 places
1952	Boys	13	#2,153	Up 913 places
1951	Boys	7	#3,066	Down 45 places
1950	Boys	7	#3,021	Up 669 places
1949	Boys	5	#3,690	Down 594 places
1947	Boys	7	#3,096	Up 77 places
1946	Boys	6	#3,173	Down 311 places
1944	Boys	7	#2,862	Down 476 places
1942	Boys	10	#2,386	Up 747 places
1941	Boys	6	#3,133	Up 326 places
1940	Boys	5	#3,459	Down 1,010 places
1939	Boys	9	#2,449	Up 30 places
1938	Boys	9	#2,479	Up 426 places
1937	Boys	7	#2,905	Down 363 places
1933	Boys	9	#2,542	Down 547 places
1932	Boys	14	#1,995	Up 1,964 places
1929	Boys	5	#3,959	Down 262 places
1928	Boys	6	#3,697	Down 312 places
1926	Boys	7	#3,385	Up 356 places
1925	Boys	6	#3,741	Down 718 places
1924	Boys	9	#3,023	Up 846 places
1921	Boys	6	#3,869	Down 54 places
1920	Boys	6	#3,815	Down 1,150 places
1919	Boys	10	#2,665	Up 1,514 places
1918	Boys	5	#4,179	Down 354 places
1915	Boys	5	#3,825	—