Wendee
Wendee was last recorded in 1993, when 5 babies were given it; 790 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wendee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wendee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,721, in 1993; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1971, the peak
Wendee peaked in 1971, when 49 girls were given it, #1,827 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 5 | #15,721 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 6 | #13,092 | 3.2 |
| 1989 | 5 | #14,494 | 2.7 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,791 | 4.0 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,798 | 5.9 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,881 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #12,281 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,739 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,537 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,423 | 8.1 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 19 | #3,919 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,999 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 35 | #2,386 | 23.9 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,509 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 33 | #2,394 | 22.5 |
| 1973 | 29 | #2,562 | 19.9 |
| 1972 | 40 | #2,021 | 26.3 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,827 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 43 | #1,985 | 24.6 |
| 1969 | 38 | #2,055 | 22.5 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,055 | 21.3 |
| 1967 | 36 | #1,979 | 21.8 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,666 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 29 | #2,245 | 16.4 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,068 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 18 | #3,061 | 9.3 |
| 1962 | 19 | #2,916 | 9.7 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,356 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 19 | #2,900 | 9.4 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,294 | 4.9 |
| 1958 | 8 | #4,882 | 4.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,197 | 4.9 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,317 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,374 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,958 | 5.1 |
| 1953 | 13 | #3,266 | 6.9 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,545 | 3.2 |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,375 | 4.4 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,902 | 8.2 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,889 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,197 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wendee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wendee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wendee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wendee, and how old are they?
An estimated 706 Americans named Wendee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 56 years old and half are between 51 and 62. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 775 people named Wendee (769 women and girls, 6 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 731 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Wendee?
Wendee is a less common spelling of Wendy: SSA has recorded 790 Wendee and 263,276 Wendy since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 283,166 babies since 1880, Wendee is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 165 babies recorded by SSA was a Wendee (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 Wendee
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 Wendee and names like it
- Compare Wendee and WendyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWendee peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wendee since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Wendee.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Wendee alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with WMost given first.