Wende
Wende is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 861st, in 1967.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1967139 births
- Best rank
- #861in 1967
- Since 1943
- 1,377people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,377 girls have been named Wende in the United States since 1943, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 139 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 139 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1966, and the 1960s alone account for 43%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1967, its biggest year
Wende was the 861st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1967 were Lisa, Kimberly, Michelle, Mary and Susan. See all of 1967.
Names that rose and fell with Wende
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Michelepeak 1968
- Rondapeak 1965
- Carlettepeak 1966
- Dawnpeak 1970
- Wendypeak 1967
- Sheripeak 1963
- Tonjapeak 1967
- Treasapeak 1967
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.