Wake
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Wake is a boys' name of English origin, meaning “alert, watchful”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Wake mean?
English: English surname and word name
“alert, watchful”
Hereward the Wake led English resistance to the Norman conquerors from the Fens around 1070.
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Is Wake a girl's or a boy's name?
Wake is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Wake in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,442among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13about 1 in 130,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 11% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 13 boys in the US were named Wake, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,037th. Its busiest year was 2023, with 22 boys. It first appears in the records in 2009.
2025 had fewer boys named Wake than any year since 2014.
Half of all the boys named Wake in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Wake in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 16 | #5,655 |
| 2023 | 22 | #4,606 |
| 2022 | 21 | #4,697 |
| 2021 | 18 | #5,105 |
| 2020 | 18 | #5,037 |
| 2019 | 21 | #4,635 |
| 2018 | 18 | #5,102 |
| 2017 | 17 | #5,293 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,314 |
| 2015 | 14 | #5,995 |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 13 | #6,236 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,300 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 8 | #8,980 |
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