Wenona
Wenona was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 1,168 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Wenona by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Wenona mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Wenona is “a female given name, variant of Winona.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Wenona?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,461, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
52 babies in 1975, the peak
Wenona peaked in 1975, when 52 girls were given it, #1,805 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #17,461 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,523 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,983 | 2.9 |
| 2008 | 5 | #20,327 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,396 | 3.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,792 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,786 | 2.9 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,565 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,396 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,330 | 15.6 |
Every recorded year (77)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1978 | 25 | #3,194 | 16.3 |
| 1977 | 50 | #1,974 | 32.6 |
| 1976 | 51 | #1,838 | 34.8 |
| 1975 | 52 | #1,805 | 35.7 |
| 1974 | 41 | #2,065 | 27.9 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,402 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,889 | 29.6 |
| 1971 | 42 | #2,032 | 25.2 |
| 1970 | 28 | #2,645 | 16.0 |
| 1969 | 25 | #2,703 | 14.8 |
| 1968 | 11 | #4,482 | 6.7 |
| 1967 | 8 | #5,445 | 4.8 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,483 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,802 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,348 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 10 | #4,531 | 5.2 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,586 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,601 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,509 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 12 | #3,821 | 5.9 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,918 | 5.5 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,924 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,692 | 6.0 |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,193 | 3.6 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,268 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,218 | 4.8 |
| 1952 | 9 | #4,117 | 4.9 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,817 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,306 | 4.7 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,234 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #6,018 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,333 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,422 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,911 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,759 | 9.0 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,186 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,977 | 8.1 |
| 1941 | 5 | #5,070 | 4.1 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,417 | 11.4 |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,335 | 12.7 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,140 | 8.5 |
| 1936 | 15 | #2,148 | 14.4 |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,723 | 10.5 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,734 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,269 | 13.9 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,555 | 7.5 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,576 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,334 | 8.0 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,130 | 9.0 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,152 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,270 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 16 | #2,348 | 13.5 |
| 1925 | 17 | #2,278 | 14.0 |
| 1924 | 19 | #2,131 | 15.2 |
| 1923 | 17 | #2,259 | 14.1 |
| 1922 | 32 | #1,463 | 26.6 |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,339 | 29.2 |
| 1920 | 33 | #1,405 | 27.5 |
| 1919 | 16 | #2,259 | 14.2 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,668 | 11.2 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,651 | 21.3 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,241 | 14.4 |
| 1915 | 15 | #2,138 | 15.2 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,628 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 7 | #2,816 | 11.2 |
| 1911 | 6 | #2,454 | 14.3 |
| 1907 | 6 | #2,050 | 18.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Wenona a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Wenona has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 77 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Wenona: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Wenona, and how old are they?
An estimated 682 Americans named Wenona and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (58% of everyone recorded); the median is 54 years old and half are between 50 and 65. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 696 people named Wenona (696 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 736 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,674 babies since 1880, Wenona is the most given (70% 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.
More about Wenona and names like it
- Compare Wenona and WenonahBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sWenona peaked in 1975.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Wenona since 1910.
- The top names of 1975The year the most babies were named Wenona.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Wenona alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with WMost given first.