Wendi
Wendi was last recorded in 2024, when 10 babies were given it; 14,522 Americans have been recorded with it between 1943 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,300 Americans named Wendi and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 48 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wendi by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wendi mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wendi is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
A spelling variant of Wendy.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wendi?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,217, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
844 babies in 1970, the peak
Wendi peaked in 1970, when 844 girls were given it, #320 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 10 | #10,217 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 6 | #15,129 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,387 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #15,438 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,575 | under 0.01 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,810 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 6 | #16,299 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,877 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 15 | #8,118 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 15 | #8,191 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (79)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #13,280 | under 0.01 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,255 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,320 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 26 | #5,562 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 34 | #4,470 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 42 | #3,729 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 35 | #4,108 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 46 | #3,326 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 42 | #3,464 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,328 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 49 | #2,956 | 0.03 |
| 2000 | 38 | #3,516 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,795 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 44 | #2,969 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 22 | #4,808 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,087 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,728 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,405 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,961 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 80 | #1,813 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 87 | #1,695 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 97 | #1,573 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 110 | #1,379 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 114 | #1,283 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 101 | #1,361 | 0.06 |
| 1986 | 122 | #1,170 | 0.07 |
| 1985 | 174 | #912 | 0.10 |
| 1984 | 165 | #908 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 204 | #784 | 0.12 |
| 1982 | 291 | #619 | 0.17 |
| 1981 | 329 | #566 | 0.20 |
| 1980 | 353 | #535 | 0.21 |
| 1979 | 374 | #518 | 0.23 |
| 1978 | 409 | #478 | 0.27 |
| 1977 | 458 | #447 | 0.30 |
| 1976 | 475 | #427 | 0.32 |
| 1975 | 563 | #369 | 0.39 |
| 1974 | 642 | #339 | 0.44 |
| 1973 | 636 | #344 | 0.44 |
| 1972 | 706 | #330 | 0.46 |
| 1971 | 839 | #317 | 0.50 |
| 1970 | 844 | #320 | 0.48 |
| 1969 | 732 | #332 | 0.43 |
| 1968 | 707 | #327 | 0.43 |
| 1967 | 666 | #347 | 0.40 |
| 1966 | 500 | #419 | 0.30 |
| 1965 | 458 | #442 | 0.26 |
| 1964 | 386 | #499 | 0.20 |
| 1963 | 305 | #562 | 0.16 |
| 1962 | 252 | #637 | 0.13 |
| 1961 | 253 | #641 | 0.13 |
| 1960 | 243 | #650 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 154 | #828 | 0.08 |
| 1958 | 140 | #864 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 141 | #858 | 0.07 |
| 1956 | 119 | #927 | 0.06 |
| 1955 | 89 | #1,071 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 80 | #1,106 | 0.04 |
| 1953 | 68 | #1,176 | 0.04 |
| 1952 | 64 | #1,193 | 0.03 |
| 1951 | 47 | #1,381 | 0.03 |
| 1950 | 42 | #1,431 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 41 | #1,450 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,186 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 13 | #3,056 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 18 | #2,313 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,540 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,560 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,185 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wendi a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wendi has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 79 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wendi: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wendi, and how old are they?
13,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 14,522 Americans ever recorded as Wendi. The median Wendi alive today is 54 years old; half are between 48 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 13,242 people named Wendi (13,183 women and girls, 59 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 13,644 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,050 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 8,670 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,020 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 502 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 73 |
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 Wendi born?
The states with the most babies named Wendi are California, Texas and Ohio, with 29% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,818 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 959 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Ohio | 651 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Michigan | 606 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 598 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 586 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Pennsylvania | 576 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 441 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 365 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Washington | 352 | not ranked | 1.4× |
Where Wendi is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wendi is most over-represented in Utah: since 1943 it was given 1.9 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 Wendi 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, Wendi is the second most given (5.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 165 babies recorded by SSA was a Wendi (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 Wendi
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 Wendi and names like it
- Compare Wendi and WendyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWendi peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wendi since 1910.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Wendi: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Wendi.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Wendi alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with WMost given first.