Wen — boys' name

What the Data Says About Wen

The Social Security Administration has registered 87 babies named Wen between 1981 and 2009, spanning 29 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Wen currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 11 babies received it in a single year. Wen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 70 additional births since 1995.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wen performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 58 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Wen shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 16 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Wen in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 87 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.