NameTides

Wake

Wake was the #6,446 boys' name in the US in 2025 (13 babies).

Wake as a boy’s name

  • US
Wake as a boy’s name, USBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.010.020.0218801900192019401960198020002020US
Wake as a boy’s name, USBabies per 1,000 in the published list, 1880–2025, for US. Gaps mark years with too few babies to be published.00.010.010.020.021880192019602000
Babies per 1,000 of the same sex in each published list. Breaks in a line are years with too few babies to be published.
Show the numbers
YearUS
2025#6,446 (13)
2024#5,659 (16)
2023#4,610 (22)
2022#4,701 (21)
2021#5,110 (18)
2020#5,041 (18)
2019#4,639 (21)
2018#5,106 (18)
2017#5,297 (17)
2016#5,318 (17)
2015#5,999 (14)
2014#10,717 (6)
2013#6,241 (13)
2012#6,306 (13)
2011#8,767 (8)

The tide so far

  • Peaked in the US in 2023 at #4,610.
  • Falling over the last five years.
  • First recorded in the US in 2009.

How common is it?

about 1 in 130,000 baby boys in the published US list for 2025.

In a group of 1,000 children born that year, you would expect to meet fewer than 1. How we work this out.

Next year

On its recent trend, Wake is likely to hold steady in the US in 2026: about 1 in 120,000 baby boys. Likely range 1 in 84,000 to 1 in 180,000.

Estimate, not an official figure. How we estimate.