Wendall
Wendall was given to 8 boys in 2025, #9,645 among boys’ names; 2,439 Americans have been recorded with it since 1904 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,430 Americans named Wendall and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (59% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 38 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wendall by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wendall?
#9,645 among boys’ names, 2025
Wendall fell from #7,997 in 2015 to #9,645 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.2 to 4.7 per million.
55 babies in 1958, the peak
Wendall peaked in 1958, when 55 boys were given it, #1,038 among boys’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 15% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #9,645 | 4.7 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,815 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 7 | #10,747 | 4.1 |
| 2022 | 5 | #14,211 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,958 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 10 | #8,011 | 5.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #10,747 | 3.9 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,586 | 6.1 |
| 2017 | 12 | #7,069 | 6.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #8,111 | 5.3 |
Every recorded year (113)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 10 | #7,997 | 5.2 |
| 2014 | 11 | #7,520 | 5.7 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,384 | 9.0 |
| 2012 | 5 | #14,119 | 2.6 |
| 2009 | 11 | #7,660 | 5.5 |
| 2008 | 10 | #8,282 | 4.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #8,135 | 4.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #8,677 | 4.4 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,399 | 3.0 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,114 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,596 | 4.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #8,408 | 4.1 |
| 2001 | 11 | #6,421 | 5.7 |
| 2000 | 12 | #5,892 | 6.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,539 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 5 | #11,251 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 13 | #4,940 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,860 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 13 | #4,775 | 6.8 |
| 1994 | 19 | #3,582 | 9.8 |
| 1993 | 17 | #3,806 | 8.7 |
| 1992 | 8 | #6,654 | 4.0 |
| 1991 | 11 | #5,080 | 5.4 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,593 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,606 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 18 | #3,069 | 9.4 |
| 1987 | 23 | #2,460 | 12.3 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,869 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 25 | #2,223 | 13.5 |
| 1984 | 15 | #3,098 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 15 | #3,065 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 14 | #3,275 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 16 | #2,892 | 8.9 |
| 1980 | 17 | #2,827 | 9.5 |
| 1979 | 15 | #3,015 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 12 | #3,393 | 7.3 |
| 1977 | 19 | #2,454 | 11.6 |
| 1976 | 24 | #2,052 | 15.3 |
| 1975 | 20 | #2,283 | 12.8 |
| 1974 | 19 | #2,273 | 12.1 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,816 | 16.0 |
| 1972 | 36 | #1,440 | 22.2 |
| 1971 | 30 | #1,632 | 17.0 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,612 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 32 | #1,436 | 17.9 |
| 1968 | 32 | #1,391 | 18.4 |
| 1967 | 49 | #1,060 | 28.1 |
| 1966 | 47 | #1,088 | 26.4 |
| 1965 | 36 | #1,293 | 19.4 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,159 | 22.6 |
| 1963 | 45 | #1,163 | 22.2 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,119 | 23.2 |
| 1961 | 49 | #1,134 | 23.1 |
| 1960 | 42 | #1,227 | 19.7 |
| 1959 | 43 | #1,195 | 20.1 |
| 1958 | 55 | #1,038 | 25.9 |
| 1957 | 43 | #1,197 | 19.9 |
| 1956 | 40 | #1,216 | 18.9 |
| 1955 | 39 | #1,216 | 18.9 |
| 1954 | 32 | #1,358 | 15.7 |
| 1953 | 25 | #1,549 | 12.7 |
| 1952 | 43 | #1,133 | 22.1 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,460 | 14.3 |
| 1950 | 27 | #1,431 | 15.1 |
| 1949 | 18 | #1,817 | 10.1 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,515 | 13.7 |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,358 | 16.4 |
| 1946 | 27 | #1,380 | 16.6 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,441 | 16.3 |
| 1944 | 14 | #1,984 | 10.3 |
| 1943 | 26 | #1,397 | 18.2 |
| 1942 | 29 | #1,315 | 21.0 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,587 | 16.3 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,395 | 20.7 |
| 1939 | 25 | #1,356 | 22.6 |
| 1938 | 27 | #1,308 | 24.3 |
| 1937 | 20 | #1,575 | 18.8 |
| 1936 | 26 | #1,325 | 25.1 |
| 1935 | 32 | #1,192 | 30.7 |
| 1934 | 37 | #1,091 | 35.8 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,641 | 19.2 |
| 1932 | 29 | #1,285 | 27.8 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,426 | 24.0 |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,425 | 24.6 |
| 1929 | 35 | #1,193 | 32.5 |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,446 | 24.4 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,177 | 33.7 |
| 1926 | 32 | #1,294 | 28.8 |
| 1925 | 36 | #1,200 | 32.3 |
| 1924 | 28 | #1,455 | 24.7 |
| 1923 | 21 | #1,749 | 19.2 |
| 1922 | 17 | #2,036 | 15.6 |
| 1921 | 29 | #1,411 | 26.3 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,502 | 24.4 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,056 | 16.3 |
| 1918 | 17 | #1,994 | 16.8 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,087 | 16.2 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,166 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,175 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,864 | 19.9 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,087 | 17.6 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,259 | 16.3 |
| 1904 | 5 | #1,389 | 39.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Wendall a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wendall has been given almost only to boys: 6 girls in 113 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wendall: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wendall, and how old are they?
1,430 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 59% of the 2,439 Americans ever recorded as Wendall. The median Wendall alive today is 57 years old; half are between 38 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 1,461 people named Wendall (36 women and girls, 1,425 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,550 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 83 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 478 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 391 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 239 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 120 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 120 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 59,110 babies since 1880, Wendall is the second most given (4.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 80 babies (10%), again the second most given.
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 Wendall
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 Wendall and names like it
- Compare Wendall and WendellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sWendall peaked in 1958.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wendall since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Wendall.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wendall alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.