Wendy
Wendy is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 224 births. Its best rank was 28th, in 1970.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2240.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 196711,222 births
- Best rank
- #28in 1970
- Since 1918
- 262,161people given the name
The story in the numbers
262,161 girls have been named Wendy in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1967, with 11,222 births — 0.68% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 224 births in 2024, against 11,222 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 34%. It has spent 82 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 26 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Wendy | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 5 | |
| 1920s | 45 | |
| 1930s | 583 | |
| 1940s | 8,423 | |
| 1950s | 42,675 | |
| 1960s | 88,964 | |
| 1970s | 74,186 | |
| 1980s | 22,269 | |
| 1990s | 11,079 | |
| 2000s | 9,577 | |
| 2010s | 3,371 | |
| 2020s | 984 |
In 1967, its biggest year
Wendy was the 32nd 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 Wendy
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Michelepeak 1968
- Dawnpeak 1970
- Heidepeak 1968
- Angeliapeak 1966
- Trenapeak 1971
- Dannettepeak 1965
- Karynpeak 1964
- Shellypeak 1964
Other spellings in the data
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.