Wendolyn
Wendolyn was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,861 among girls’ names; 1,176 Americans have been recorded with it since 1928 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,010 Americans named Wendolyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 45 and 66.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wendolyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Wendolyn?
#11,861 among girls’ names, 2025
Wendolyn entered the girls’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #11,861 in 2025.
39 babies in 1966, the peak
Wendolyn peaked in 1966, when 39 girls were given it, #1,856 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,861 | 5.0 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,377 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,487 | 4.3 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,483 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,059 | 2.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,389 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,918 | 2.6 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,953 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,581 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,780 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (73)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 9 | #10,981 | 5.0 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,954 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,631 | 3.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,998 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,795 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,741 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,776 | 5.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,395 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,053 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,236 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,283 | 6.3 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,433 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,357 | 3.9 |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,205 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,872 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,538 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,385 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,814 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,710 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,740 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,717 | 13.3 |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,226 | 11.2 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,920 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,879 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,536 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,508 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,832 | 17.7 |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,751 | 17.8 |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,901 | 15.8 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,424 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,448 | 17.7 |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,451 | 17.2 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,244 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,076 | 20.0 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,856 | 23.0 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,201 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 36 | #2,009 | 19.0 |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,539 | 12.5 |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,915 | 18.8 |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,115 | 15.9 |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,979 | 16.8 |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,106 | 14.8 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,069 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,986 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,044 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,976 | 15.3 |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,983 | 14.9 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,970 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,500 | 10.2 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,178 | 12.2 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,338 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,994 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,134 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,896 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,670 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,541 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,561 | 4.5 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,793 | 5.7 |
| 1940 | 5 | #5,005 | 4.4 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,973 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,836 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,074 | 4.7 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,412 | 4.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wendolyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wendolyn has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 73 years of records.
Girls and boys named Wendolyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wendolyn, and how old are they?
1,010 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 1,176 Americans ever recorded as Wendolyn. The median Wendolyn alive today is 58 years old; half are between 45 and 66.
The 2020 Census counted 1,101 people named Wendolyn (1,088 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,038 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 17 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 372 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 153 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 72 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 2,182 babies since 1880, Wendolyn is the most given (54% of them).
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 Wendolyn
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 Wendolyn and names like it
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wendolyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Wendolyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Wendolyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with WMost given first.