Wenda
Wenda is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 195643 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1935
- 1,001people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,001 girls have been named Wenda in the United States since 1935, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1956, with 43 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 43 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1957, and the 1950s alone account for 34%.
By decade
In 1956, its biggest year
Wenda was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1956 were Mary, Debra, Linda, Deborah and Susan. See all of 1956.
Names that rose and fell with Wenda
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Gaylenepeak 1956
- Sheilapeak 1962
- Suannepeak 1954
- Karenpeak 1957
- Gaylapeak 1954
- Lynnpeak 1956
- Lynpeak 1957
- Ronnapeak 1963
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.