Wayne

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Wayne is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Singapore it is the 29th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Occupational name from Old English weegn ‘wagon’; ‘wagon-maker’.

rarermore common
  • NZNew Zealand1 in 479◐
  • AUAustralia1 in 480
  • CACanada1 in 679

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈216K ●

across 9 countries

#402 ●

of 16M given names

3 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
552 ●

6.1M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 770 ◐

Guyana

Spellings & scripts●

WayneLatin · English●6M records
וייןHebrew · Hebrew●1.1K records
웨인Hangul · Korean●0 records

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled ויין in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Occupational name from Old English weegn ‘wagon’; ‘wagon-maker’.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Wayne is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#124284,647266K rec.—4Wayne250
AU Australia#90241,626169K rec.—88Wayne267
US United States#88212,7465.1M rec.1 in 1.6K213KWayne552
CA Canada#96122,493120K rec.—3Wayne224
IT Italy#29229,09630K rec.——Wayne55
ZA South Africa#12019,70520K rec.——Wayne138
NZ New Zealand#3517,86616K rec.—10Wayne132
SG Singapore#2914,83015K rec.——Wayne114
PH Philippines—13,51813K rec.——Wayne89
RU Russia—11,40812K rec.——Wayne45
EG Egypt#6347,3487.4K rec.——Wayne25
JP Japan—2,1072.1K rec.——Wayne56

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Languages●

  • English6M86%
  • Spanish264K4%
  • 103K1%
  • French47K1%
  • German46K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English6,044,74486%
Spanish263,6244%
103,1341%
French46,9511%
German46,0221%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Wayne is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name404K records spelled Wayne14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, France, Brazil, Colombia

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Wäyne, Wayne', Wäÿnë, Wàyñê, Wàyne

  • German given name50K records spelled Wayne7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

    Also written Waynè, Wayņe, Wáyne, Wáýné, Wayné

  • Polish given name28K records spelled Wayne36 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Уэйн, Вейн, Wain, Vejn, Уэин

66 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Wayne is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Old English: wagon maker; popularized by actor John Wayne

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, A surname originating as an occupation.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English Actor John Wayne Helped

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In enm, alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In German, who cares

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

05K10K15K19001950200010K · 1947

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Wayne in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188023
188130
188222
188325
188434
188524
188623
188729
188841
188932
189045
189129
189235
189355
189458
189556
189655
189751
189868
189957
190085
190187
190290
190392
190492
1905107
1906116
1907148
1908178
1909163
1910228
1911280
1912617
1913760
19141,001
19151,517
19161,587
19171,715
19181,912
19191,955
19202,180
19212,417
19222,476
19232,597
19242,730
19252,713
19262,811
19272,882
19282,855
19292,741
19302,981
19313,217
19323,388
19333,562
19344,035
19354,057
19364,409
19374,613
19385,226
19395,653
19405,727
19416,112
19426,484
19436,761
19446,724
19456,738
19468,807
194710,169
19488,682
19498,927
19509,259
19519,327
19529,087
19538,905
19549,175
19558,728
19568,717
19578,687
19588,329
19597,878
19607,193
19616,762
19626,324
19636,031
19645,832
19655,112
19664,891
19674,470
19684,251
19693,896
19704,006
19713,331
19722,792
19732,448
19742,216
19752,134
19762,020
19771,950
19781,888
19791,831
19801,843
19811,751
19821,714
19831,529
19841,478
19851,384
19861,343
19871,298
19881,242
19891,168
19901,148
19911,031
1992917
1993834
1994746
1995674
1996605
1997515
1998525
1999507
2000453
2001421
2002420
2003382
2004364
2005319
2006358
2007354
2008344
2009304
2010284
2011327
2012291
2013301
2014292
2015325
2016330
2017281
2018299
2019322
2020305
2021318
2022329
2023359
2024396
2025422

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Mae Marsh, b. 1894David Wayne, b. 1914Dick Van Dyke, b. 1925John Wayne Gacy, b. 1942Wayne Newton, b. 1942Rex Tillerson, b. 1952Wayne Knight, b. 1955Ken Jennings, b. 1974Wayne Bridge, b. 1980Wayne Rooney, b. 1985
  • Mae Marshb. 1894USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (1894-1968)
  • David Wayneb. 1914USAmerican actor (1914–1995)
  • Dick Van Dykeb. 1925USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor and comedian (born 1925)
  • John Wayne Gacyb. 1942USAmerican serial killer (1942–1994)
  • Wayne Newtonb. 1942USAmerican singer and entertainer
  • Rex Tillersonb. 1952USnot in their usual name69th United States Secretary of State
  • Wayne Knightb. 1955USAmerican actor
  • Ken Jenningsb. 1974USnot in their usual nameAmerican game show contestant, host, and writer
  • Wayne Bridgeb. 1980GBEnglish footballer (born 1980)
  • Wayne Rooneyb. 1985GBEnglish footballer and manager

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 73 sources across 42 countries.

Official registers attesting Wayne
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020213K#262
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010201010K#3,498
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000200010K#3,280
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020202010K#3,479
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025974#56
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022805—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2024635#1,267
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—592#12,891
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—591#9,630
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025422—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—332#3,661
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020286#262

Reference works 4

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 827 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wayne?
We estimate roughly 216 thousand people bear Wayne (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
In which country does Wayne have the most bearers?
Wayne is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled wayne.
How common is Wayne compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Wayne is the 124th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Wayne a male or female name?
Wayne is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Wayne mean?
Recorded meaning: Occupational name from Old English weegn ‘wagon’; ‘wagon-maker’.
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About this data

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Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wayne” — the 124th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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