Wandy
Wandy was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 100 Americans have been recorded with it between 1955 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wandy by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wandy?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,185, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1972, the peak
Wandy peaked in 1972, when 8 girls were given it, #6,541 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #15,185 | 2.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #8,154 | 4.8 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,627 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 6 | #9,257 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,039 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,887 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,402 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,541 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 6 | #8,297 | 3.6 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,997 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (16)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | 5 | #7,595 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,880 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,561 | 3.1 |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,303 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 5 | #7,007 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,191 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wandy a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wandy has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 16 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wandy: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wandy, and how old are they?
An estimated 91 Americans named Wandy and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 518 people named Wandy (299 women and girls, 219 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 93 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 282,418 babies since 1880, Wandy is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 20 babies recorded by SSA was a Wandy (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Wandy
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Wandy and names like it
- Compare Wandy and WandaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWandy peaked in 1972.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Wandy.
- Names starting with WMost given first.