Wendee — girls' name
790 babies named Wendee in U.S. Social Security records since 1948, with the highest year being 1971. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
39% of everyone ever named Wendee was born in this single decade.
49 babies were named Wendee in 1971 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Wendee
The Social Security Administration has registered 790 babies named Wendee between 1948 and 1993, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wendee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1993. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 49 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Wendee performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 308 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Wendee shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 94 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Michigan and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Wendee in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Wendee 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 790 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.
Wendee at a glance
Last recorded 1993Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Wendee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1993–1948
- Peak year (1971)
- 49
- Annual births at peak — across 46 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1993.
790 total births across 46 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1971 with 49 births in a single year.
Wendee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1970s
- 308 births that decade — 39% of Wendee's all-time total
Wendee decade highlights
- Peak decade 308 births
- Runner-up 277 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1970s was Wendee's strongest decade
308 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 39% of all-time use.
Wendee by state
Where Wendee concentrates geographically — total births since 1948
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 94 | 11.9% |
| #2 | Michigan | | 8 | 1.0% |
| #3 | Utah | | 6 | 0.8% |
| #4 | Washington | | 5 | 0.6% |
| #5 | Wisconsin | | 5 | 0.6% |
94 of 790 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 5 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 11.9% of nationwide
- Michigan 1.0% of nationwide
- Utah 0.8% of nationwide
- Washington 0.6% of nationwide
- Wisconsin 0.6% of nationwide
Recorded in 5 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 11.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1948–1993 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.