Wayne Forename
1,082nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 862,580 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Norfolk Island
Wayne Forename Definition:
A Teutonic name, meaning: An ancient wagon.
Wayne Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 544,617 | 1:666 | 126 |
| Canada | 100% | 87,753 | 1:378 | 55 |
| England | 100% | 76,683 | 1:725 | 167 |
| Australia | - | 48,733 | 1:280 | 45 |
| South Africa | 100% | 30,948 | 1:1,762 | 273 |
| New Zealand | - | 13,843 | 1:328 | 55 |
| Wales | 100% | 7,117 | 1:435 | 96 |
| Jamaica | - | 5,034 | 1:573 | 127 |
| Kenya | 100% | 4,858 | 1:9,532 | 1,240 |
| Nigeria | 87% | 3,723 | 1:47,694 | 3,545 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 3,202 | 1:425 | 32 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 2,390 | 1:12,892 | 1,818 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,983 | 1:19,066 | 1,940 |
| Angola | - | 1,889 | 1:14,276 | 1,436 |
| China | - | 1,821 | 1:750,168 | 30,756 |
| Philippines | 84% | 1,819 | 1:58,279 | 4,025 |
| Ghana | - | 1,742 | 1:15,492 | 1,297 |
| Scotland | 100% | 1,673 | 1:3,198 | 375 |
| Ireland | 100% | 1,487 | 1:3,123 | 384 |
| Brazil | 100% | 1,154 | 1:185,647 | 8,497 |
| Guyana | 100% | 1,119 | 1:682 | 67 |
| Barbados | - | 1,103 | 1:263 | 40 |
| Egypt | 59% | 802 | 1:114,590 | 5,053 |
| Namibia | - | 790 | 1:3,043 | 528 |
| Thailand | 100% | 696 | 1:100,669 | 8,507 |
| Northern Ireland | 99% | 692 | 1:2,664 | 389 |
| Bangladesh | - | 642 | 1:248,382 | 11,817 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 632 | 1:24,405 | 2,578 |
| Belize | 100% | 572 | 1:619 | 79 |
| Poland | 89% | 565 | 1:67,305 | 1,669 |
| Singapore | 96% | 526 | 1:11,953 | 2,364 |
| Papua New Guinea | 97% | 505 | 1:16,143 | 1,605 |
| Bahamas | - | 491 | 1:813 | 208 |
| Netherlands | 99% | 479 | 1:35,286 | 2,747 |
| Malta | - | 466 | 1:921 | 202 |
| Malawi | 100% | 465 | 1:36,801 | 2,710 |
| Hong Kong | - | 443 | 1:17,501 | 2,042 |
| Malaysia | 91% | 434 | 1:70,161 | 5,357 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 429 | 1:48,483 | 5,248 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 408 | 1:25,567 | 2,193 |
| Fiji | - | 403 | 1:2,214 | 616 |
| Vanuatu | - | 398 | 1:658 | 164 |
| Germany | 95% | 373 | 1:259,190 | 3,598 |
| Kuwait | - | 323 | 1:11,719 | 1,383 |
| India | 100% | 307 | 1:3,957,257 | 163,922 |
| Japan | - | 245 | 1:522,392 | 11,297 |
| Samoa | - | 228 | 1:856 | 261 |
| Oman | - | 225 | 1:18,261 | 1,628 |
| France | 100% | 214 | 1:310,609 | 4,186 |
| Saint Lucia | 100% | 213 | 1:835 | 124 |
| Grenada | 100% | 197 | 1:549 | 71 |
| Swaziland | - | 179 | 1:7,264 | 1,100 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 169 | 1:588 | 66 |
| Suriname | 100% | 165 | 1:3,350 | 773 |
| Qatar | 100% | 164 | 1:14,449 | 2,242 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 159 | 1:690 | 123 |
| Botswana | 100% | 153 | 1:14,277 | 1,876 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 150 | 1:744 | 84 |
| Indonesia | - | 144 | 1:1,791,414 | 94,842 |
| Bermuda | - | 135 | 1:480 | 70 |
| Guam | - | 133 | 1:1,208 | 271 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 133 | 1:178,719 | 16,707 |
| Micronesia | - | 110 | 1:968 | 154 |
| Guernsey | - | 104 | 1:609 | 147 |
| Spain | 100% | 102 | 1:456,176 | 6,047 |
| Sweden | 99% | 98 | 1:100,591 | 4,313 |
| Jersey | 100% | 96 | 1:1,041 | 223 |
| Gibraltar | - | 90 | 1:379 | 77 |
| Bahrain | - | 89 | 1:15,154 | 2,209 |
| Switzerland | 100% | 89 | 1:92,286 | 3,003 |
| Zambia | - | 87 | 1:182,239 | 6,643 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 86 | 1:713 | 127 |
| Nicaragua | 100% | 84 | 1:71,647 | 2,907 |
| South Korea | - | 83 | 1:66,800 | 3,989 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 77 | 1:712 | 124 |
| Mexico | 96% | 76 | 1:1,633,479 | 10,627 |
| Afghanistan | 80% | 70 | 1:466,050 | 8,041 |
| Panama | 100% | 70 | 1:55,808 | 3,534 |
| Iraq | - | 68 | 1:514,969 | 5,682 |
| Norway | 100% | 68 | 1:75,475 | 2,710 |
| Costa Rica | 100% | 67 | 1:71,163 | 2,695 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 63 | 1:9,222 | 952 |
| Ecuador | - | 59 | 1:300,456 | 4,173 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 58 | 1:520,722 | 13,819 |
| Denmark | - | 52 | 1:108,644 | 3,049 |
| Seychelles | - | 52 | 1:1,782 | 417 |
| American Samoa | - | 49 | 1:1,140 | 146 |
| Mozambique | - | 49 | 1:555,987 | 1,346 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 47 | 1:665 | 110 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 44 | 1:162,545 | 11,410 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 43 | 1:807 | 176 |
| Honduras | 100% | 42 | 1:209,940 | 4,791 |
| DR Congo | 100% | 41 | 1:1,800,673 | 45,176 |
| Vietnam | 75% | 40 | 1:2,315,578 | 3,217 |
| Portugal | - | 37 | 1:281,375 | 5,179 |
| Russia | 82% | 37 | 1:3,898,208 | 20,782 |
| Italy | 100% | 36 | 1:1,696,169 | 12,510 |
| Liberia | 88% | 36 | 1:122,557 | 4,984 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 32 | 1:1,708 | 366 |
| Belgium | 100% | 31 | 1:370,646 | 6,815 |
| Mongolia | - | 31 | 1:94,671 | 6,256 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 25 | 1:283,547 | 466 |
| Hungary | 64% | 24 | 1:407,990 | 1,624 |
| Colombia | 100% | 21 | 1:2,275,187 | 18,014 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 20 | 1:2,562 | 386 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| Peru | 100% | 17 | 1:1,870,086 | 19,702 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 16 | 1:828 | 130 |
| French Polynesia | - | 16 | 1:17,369 | 1,803 |
| Myanmar | - | 16 | 1:3,246,767 | 1,079 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 16 | 1:145 | 8 |
| Finland | 100% | 15 | 1:365,546 | 4,839 |
| Macau | - | 15 | 1:40,547 | 508 |
| Israel | 81% | 14 | 1:600,208 | 10,774 |
| Austria | 100% | 12 | 1:709,517 | 5,762 |
| Chile | 92% | 12 | 1:1,467,267 | 11,454 |
| Uganda | 100% | 12 | 1:3,413,077 | 36,062 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 11 | 1:1,464,403 | 5,160 |
| Congo | 100% | 10 | 1:500,920 | 8,695 |
| Czechia | 100% | 10 | 1:1,065,616 | 3,543 |
| Dominica | - | 10 | 1:7,547 | 350 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 10 | 1:19,435,768 | 100,312 |
| Tanzania | - | 10 | 1:5,278,832 | 28,402 |
| Cambodia | - | 9 | 1:1,808,148 | 22,232 |
| Gabon | - | 9 | 1:209,260 | 2,118 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 9 | 1:394,478 | 3,471 |
| Tonga | - | 9 | 1:11,937 | 236 |
| Tunisia | - | 9 | 1:75,211 | 3,284 |
| Aruba | - | 8 | 1:12,972 | 1,901 |
| Greece | 100% | 8 | 1:1,366,818 | 10,115 |
| Ukraine | - | 8 | 1:5,687,488 | 9,604 |
| Cameroon | 67% | 7 | 1:3,087,215 | 57,282 |
| Haiti | - | 7 | 1:1,532,422 | 18,706 |
| Montserrat | - | 7 | 1:697 | 83 |
| Burkina Faso | - | 6 | 1:3,063,245 | 50,518 |
| Cook Islands | - | 6 | 1:3,026 | 469 |
| Estonia | - | 6 | 1:219,230 | 6,245 |
| Curaçao | - | 5 | 1:31,161 | 859 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 4 | 1:786 | 147 |
| Kiribati | - | 4 | 1:28,348 | 503 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 4 | 1:1,406,893 | 10,167 |
| Lesotho | - | 4 | 1:509,999 | 25,489 |
| Palau | - | 4 | 1:5,428 | 88 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 4 | 1:1,327,516 | 4,597 |
| Turkey | 100% | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Belarus | 100% | 3 | 1:3,160,795 | 12,102 |
| Bolivia | - | 3 | 1:3,533,801 | 5,917 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 3 | 1:1,991,092 | 30,660 |
| Monaco | - | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Romania | - | 3 | 1:6,683,992 | 44,661 |
| Algeria | - | 2 | 1:19,088,360 | 22,377 |
| Argentina | 100% | 2 | 1:21,386,622 | 29,627 |
| Azerbaijan | - | 2 | 1:4,821,472 | 33,780 |
| Brunei | - | 2 | 1:209,785 | 2,478 |
| Guinea | - | 2 | 1:5,929,324 | 6,648 |
| Luxembourg | - | 2 | 1:282,024 | 3,520 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 2 | 1:3,618,402 | 11,946 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 2 | 1:2,914 | 288 |
| Senegal | - | 2 | 1:7,290,678 | 24,413 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Armenia | - | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina | - | 1 | 1:3,524,458 | 8,651 |
| Bulgaria | - | 1 | 1:6,990,390 | 27,036 |
| Cape Verde | - | 1 | 1:529,151 | 6,361 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Cuba | - | 1 | 1:11,506,552 | 13,531 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Djibouti | - | 1 | 1:915,664 | 2,132 |
| El Salvador | - | 1 | 1:6,341,786 | 16,428 |
| Eritrea | 100% | 1 | 1:4,752,977 | 997 |
| Gambia | - | 1 | 1:1,926,596 | 1,391 |
| Georgia | - | 1 | 1:3,738,466 | 29,095 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Iceland | - | 1 | 1:366,017 | 7,938 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 1 | 1:85,023 | 723 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1 | 1:23,075,933 | 135,227 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 1 | 1:17,746,845 | 44,366 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Libya | - | 1 | 1:6,221,309 | 3,060 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| Madagascar | - | 1 | 1:23,629,408 | 6,628 |
| Maldives | - | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Mali | - | 1 | 1:16,977,755 | 8,714 |
| Mauritania | - | 1 | 1:4,095,239 | 27,701 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 1 | 1:1,297,784 | 13,721 |
| Moldova | - | 1 | 1:3,561,139 | 8,690 |
| Montenegro | - | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Nepal | - | 1 | 1:28,487,352 | 119,417 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | - | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Serbia | - | 1 | 1:7,145,721 | 10,629 |
| Slovenia | - | 1 | 1:2,458,758 | 6,723 |
| Togo | - | 1 | 1:7,239,239 | 8,047 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 1 | 1:30,786,440 | 17,476 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Wayné (3) are calculated separately.
Wayne (27,121) may also be a surname.
Wayne Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A Teutonic name, meaning: An ancient wagon.
— Dictionary of Given Names with Origins and Meanings (1934) by Flora Haines Loughead
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Sample size: 125,280 (2014)
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