Wendie
Wendie was last recorded in 2010, when 6 babies were given it; 2,200 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,890 Americans named Wendie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 50 and 68.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wendie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wendie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,878, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
89 babies in 1970, the peak
Wendie peaked in 1970, when 89 girls were given it, #1,258 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 6 | #16,878 | 3.4 |
| 2003 | 5 | #18,315 | 2.7 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,536 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,870 | 2.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,797 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,742 | 4.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,744 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,394 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,716 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,313 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (62)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 15 | #6,121 | 7.9 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,145 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,831 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 12 | #6,323 | 6.9 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,451 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,979 | 12.2 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,282 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,779 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 33 | #2,827 | 19.5 |
| 1981 | 52 | #2,027 | 31.2 |
| 1980 | 37 | #2,601 | 22.3 |
| 1979 | 46 | #2,186 | 28.7 |
| 1978 | 36 | #2,472 | 23.5 |
| 1977 | 38 | #2,379 | 24.8 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,862 | 34.1 |
| 1975 | 45 | #1,985 | 30.9 |
| 1974 | 56 | #1,665 | 38.2 |
| 1973 | 52 | #1,731 | 35.7 |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,324 | 50.6 |
| 1971 | 69 | #1,487 | 41.5 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,258 | 50.9 |
| 1969 | 61 | #1,530 | 36.2 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,222 | 49.4 |
| 1967 | 75 | #1,238 | 45.4 |
| 1966 | 66 | #1,350 | 39.0 |
| 1965 | 57 | #1,487 | 32.3 |
| 1964 | 52 | #1,592 | 27.4 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,578 | 27.0 |
| 1962 | 50 | #1,605 | 25.4 |
| 1961 | 60 | #1,452 | 29.7 |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,540 | 26.2 |
| 1959 | 38 | #1,818 | 18.8 |
| 1958 | 54 | #1,465 | 26.8 |
| 1957 | 53 | #1,472 | 25.9 |
| 1956 | 51 | #1,504 | 25.4 |
| 1955 | 48 | #1,478 | 24.5 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,646 | 20.1 |
| 1953 | 53 | #1,342 | 28.2 |
| 1952 | 56 | #1,283 | 30.2 |
| 1951 | 66 | #1,158 | 36.6 |
| 1950 | 50 | #1,300 | 29.2 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,561 | 21.0 |
| 1948 | 38 | #1,518 | 22.4 |
| 1947 | 24 | #2,042 | 13.5 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,090 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,669 | 6.1 |
| 1944 | 19 | #2,023 | 14.3 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,248 | 12.2 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,210 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,243 | 7.4 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,775 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,972 | 4.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wendie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wendie has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 62 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wendie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wendie, and how old are they?
1,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 2,200 Americans ever recorded as Wendie. The median Wendie alive today is 58 years old; half are between 50 and 68.
The 2020 Census counted 2,060 people named Wendie (2,055 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,982 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 41 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 703 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 864 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 257 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 23 |
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 Wendie born?
The states with the most babies named Wendie are California, New York and Texas, with 75% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 279 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| New York | 134 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 56 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 38 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 28 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 23 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 15 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 15 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 13 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Wendie is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Wendie is most over-represented in California: since 1938 it was given 1.3 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 Wendie with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Wendie?
Wendie is a less common spelling of Wendy: SSA has recorded 2,200 Wendie and 263,276 Wendy since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 283,166 babies since 1880, Wendie is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 165 babies recorded by SSA was a Wendie (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 Wendie
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 Wendie and names like it
- Compare Wendie and WendyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWendie peaked in 1970.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wendie since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Wendie.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Wendie alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with WMost given first.