Wende
Wende was last recorded in 1990, when 5 babies were given it; 1,377 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Wende and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 55 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wende by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wende?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,187, in 1990; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
139 babies in 1967, the peak
Wende peaked in 1967, when 139 girls were given it, #861 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #15,187 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,784 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,648 | 3.5 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,938 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 5 | #12,153 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 18 | #4,323 | 10.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,422 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,633 | 5.2 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,608 | 13.7 |
| 1976 | 32 | #2,543 | 21.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 22 | #3,255 | 15.1 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,393 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,169 | 25.4 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,888 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 65 | #1,533 | 39.1 |
| 1970 | 67 | #1,503 | 38.3 |
| 1969 | 64 | #1,479 | 37.9 |
| 1968 | 60 | #1,472 | 36.6 |
| 1967 | 139 | #861 | 84.2 |
| 1966 | 81 | #1,200 | 47.9 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,486 | 32.3 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,865 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 30 | #2,209 | 15.6 |
| 1962 | 35 | #1,987 | 17.8 |
| 1961 | 35 | #2,001 | 17.3 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,539 | 26.2 |
| 1959 | 32 | #2,018 | 15.8 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,982 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 27 | #2,164 | 13.2 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,714 | 19.4 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,576 | 22.0 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,833 | 17.0 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,618 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,778 | 17.3 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,113 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,774 | 8.8 |
| 1949 | 29 | #1,804 | 17.0 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,970 | 7.7 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,331 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,987 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 7 | #4,013 | 5.4 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,680 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wende a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wende has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wende: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wende, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,377 Americans ever recorded as Wende. The median Wende alive today is 59 years old; half are between 55 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,377 people named Wende (1,326 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,247 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 452 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 698 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 35 |
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).
Where are babies named Wende born?
The states with the most babies named Wende are New York, California and Texas, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 183 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| California | 100 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 46 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 14 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 7 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Indiana | 6 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Kansas | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Wende is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wende is most over-represented in New York: since 1943 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Wende with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 283,166 babies since 1880, Wende is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 165 babies recorded by SSA was a Wende (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 Wende
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 Wende and names like it
- Compare Wende and WendyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sWende peaked in 1967.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wende since 1910.
- The top names of 1967The year the most babies were named Wende.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Wende alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with WMost given first.