Wanda is a first name typically given to girls, but in rare cases also used as a boys name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Wanda is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Wanda. In the SmartGenius ranking, Wanda is #4,682 on the list of most common girls names. In the entire USA, approximately 274,545 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Wanda. That is 0.08 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Wanda is a staple in the country: Girls have been given the name Wanda for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Wanda is therefore one of only 432 girls’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Wanda is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed 47 Wanda easily made it into the Top 100 of our SmartGenius stats for female first names and has never been more popular than back in 1934.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wanda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
As many as 22 babies were named Wanda in the USA in 2022, ranking it #4,947 on the list of the most popular girls' names for that year. However, it experienced its lowest point of popularity in 2019, when it was only ranked at #7,137 of all female names in our SmartGenius statistics – back then only 13 girls were named Wanda.
There are only 537 different women’s names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Wanda is one of them. However, Wanda is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Oklahoma seem to particularly fancy this name – the 13,135 women called Wanda who live here are 0,648% of all female residents and push their name up to #11, easily placing it in the top 100 most common female names in Oklahoma.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The W is really rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Wanda is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 0.8% of all girls' names start with a W, all other letters occur on average five times as often as the W. Nevertheless, individual girls' names with W are quite popular, the most common currently being Wanda.
If your name is Wanda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Wanda, you can simply say:
Windmill
Apple
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wanda
Wanda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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A
N
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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A
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D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Wanda sounds like this:
