Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Waitman

#19,936 most common boys' name of all time · #52,443 across all names · 100% male / 0% female · used 1913–1948

Rank among boys
#19,936
Rank overall
#52,443 of 105,966
First appeared
1913
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
48
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1924 #3,168
Best rank
#3,168 1924
Girls Boys peak 9/yr
19201940

Waitman first appears in 1913. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1948 — 5 5 #3,909
1934 — 5 5 #3,911
1924 — 9 9 #3,168
1923 — 5 5 #4,480
1922 — 6 6 #4,045
1919 — 6 6 #3,935
1915 — 7 7 #3,272
1913 — 5 5 #3,255