Waverly Girl
How popular is Waverly?
#1,027 girl name in 2025
244 baby girls were named Waverly in the US in 2025, making it the 1027th most popular girl name.
Waverly popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,027 for girls (▼ 123 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 244 girls |
| 10-year trend | Rising fast (+102% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,731 in 2015, #736 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 2022 (384 girls) |
| Highest rank | #736 in 2020 |
| First recorded | 1914 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 1% boys, 99% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.2% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Waverly counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Waverly family of names ranked #846 for girls in 2025 (#773 the year before), with 272 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Waverly | 244 | 90% |
| Waverley | 14 | 5% |
| Waverlee | 6 | 2% |
| Waverleigh | 8 | 3% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Waverly is most popular
Babies named Waverly per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Mississippi: 1.0 per 1,000 (45 girls)
- West Virginia: 0.7 per 1,000 (19 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.6 per 1,000 (53 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.5 per 1,000 (77 girls)
- Virginia: 0.5 per 1,000 (80 girls)
Waverly by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 12 | #3,617 |
| 1920s | 20 | #3,268 |
| 1930s | 38 | #3,272 |
| 1940s | 51 | #3,557 |
| 1950s | 66 | #2,920 |
| 1960s | 50 | #3,591 |
| 1970s | 41 | #7,171 |
| 1980s | 22 | #9,013 |
| 1990s | 244 | #2,451 |
| 2000s | 390 | #2,751 |
| 2010s | 1,650 | #810 |
| 2020s | 1,979 | #736 |
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Questions
- Is Waverly a boy or girl name?
- Waverly is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 99% of babies named Waverly were girls.
- How popular is the name Waverly?
- 244 baby girls were named Waverly in the US in 2025, making it the 1027th most popular girl name.
- When was Waverly most popular?
- Waverly peaked in 2022, when 384 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #736 in 2020.
- How many people are named Waverly?
- 6,550 babies have been named Waverly in the US since 1880. We estimate about 5,339 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 9.
- Where is Waverly most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Waverly was most common in Mississippi, at 1.0 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.