Wendelin — unisex name

What the Data Says About Wendelin

The Social Security Administration has registered 369 babies named Wendelin between 1946 and 1976, spanning 31 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wendelin currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1976. The name reached its historical peak in 1954, when 30 babies received it in a single year. Wendelin is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 190 additional births since 1912.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wendelin performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 207 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Wendelin shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Missouri, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Wendelin in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wendelin 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 369 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.