Given name & surname
Waite
“a guardsman”
Waite is used as a given name and a surname. One English interpretation is “a guardsman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One English interpretation is “a guardsman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Waite through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 21
- 21 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1920
- 6 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1958. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 6 in 1920. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 17,416 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Waite’s family of names
Waite has a related form in Waight. Waite has a related form in Waights. Waite has a related form in Waites.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 10
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Waitsvariant · English
- Waitvariant · English
- Watesvariant
- Watevariant
- Waytesvariant
- Waytevariant
- Waytvariant
- Waightsvariant
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Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Waite
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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