Waverley
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- WAY-ver-lee
- Origin
- Old English
- US rank, 2025
- #7,489 for girls
Waverley is a girls' name of Old English origin, meaning “meadow of quivering aspens”. In 2025 it ranked 7,489th for girls in the US (14 babies).
What does Waverley mean?
Old English: English place name
“meadow of quivering aspens”
Walter Scott's first novel, Waverley (1814), gave its name to Edinburgh's Waverley station.
Is Waverley a girl's or a boy's name?
Waverley is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 14 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Waverley in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #7,489among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 14about 1 in 110,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadyup 24% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 14 girls in the US were named Waverley, making it the 7,489th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,846th. Its busiest year was 2022, with 27 girls. It first appears in the records in 1995.
It has been given to fewer girls each year for the last 3 years. 2025 had fewer girls named Waverley than any year since 2019.
Half of all the girls named Waverley in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 264 girls in the US were given Waverley or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #898, up from #7,489 for this spelling alone.
Waverley in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,489 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,440 |
| 2023 | 26 | #4,996 |
| 2022 | 27 | #4,904 |
| 2021 | 26 | #4,960 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,846 |
| 2019 | 14 | #7,712 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,788 |
| 2017 | 7 | #12,709 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,408 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,424 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 6 | #15,399 |
| 2007 | 0 | – |
| 2006 | 0 | – |
| 2005 | 0 | – |
| 2004 | 0 | – |
| 2003 | 0 | – |
| 2002 | 0 | – |
| 2001 | 5 | #15,345 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 0 | – |
| 1998 | 0 | – |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 0 | – |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,380 |
Names like Waverley
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Wrenley Everly Oakley Haisley Bexley Elowyn Emberly Ensley Journey Paisley Adley Kinsley
Other spellings of Waverley
Names related to Waverley
More Old English names
Alfie Edward Teddy Waylon Alfred Audrey Edith Wilfred Ozzy Edie Eddie Edwin Ted Teddie Eduardo Edgar
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Waverley: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/waverley, updated 20 October 2026.