Wenona — girls' name

What the Data Says About Wenona

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,168 babies named Wenona between 1907 and 2023, spanning 117 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Wenona currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1975, when 52 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Wenona performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 391 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Wenona shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and Oklahoma. In total, SSA state-level files list Wenona in 11 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Wenona 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 1,168 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.