Meaning not yet researched.
Wendell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 67 in 2025. Its best rank was #114 in 1940.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #114 in 1940; #2,165 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wendell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,165 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1940, at #114.
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Wendell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 67 boys in 2025. Peak: #114 in 1940 · most boys in one year: 1,625 (1940).
In 2025, 67 US boys were named Wendell, making it the 2,165th most common boys’ name of the year, down 109 places from #2,056 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 74 boys named Wendell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #114, reached in 1940. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,625. For comparison, it was #1,929 in 2015 and #218 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wendell in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 54,330 US babies have been given the name, 1.0% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 10,038 babies named Wendell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 809 US boys were named Wendell; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 101. In 2025 that was about 1 in 25,494 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wendell ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #871 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Windell (3,027 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Wendall, Wendel and Wyndell are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wendall (2,439), Wendel (2,147), Wyndell (342), Windel (234), Wendal (194), Wendyl (11).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Wendell in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 48 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 5 | #871 | — |
| Missouri | 5 | #986 | — |
| California | 7 | #2,193 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 67 | #2,165 |
| 2024 | — | — | 74 | #2,056 |
| 2023 | — | — | 101 | #1,692 |
| 2022 | — | — | 96 | #1,749 |
| 2021 | — | — | 84 | #1,852 |
| 2020 | — | — | 67 | #2,112 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,847 | 78 | #1,914 |
| 2018 | — | — | 76 | #1,958 |
| 2017 | — | — | 76 | #1,916 |
| 2016 | — | — | 90 | #1,738 |
| 2015 | — | — | 76 | #1,929 |
| 2014 | — | — | 79 | #1,872 |
| 2013 | — | — | 71 | #1,963 |
| 2012 | — | — | 72 | #1,981 |
| 2011 | — | — | 52 | #2,436 |
| 2010 | — | — | 61 | #2,186 |
| 2009 | — | — | 73 | #1,958 |
| 2008 | — | — | 88 | #1,735 |
| 2007 | — | — | 79 | #1,847 |
| 2006 | — | — | 96 | #1,550 |
| 2005 | — | — | 84 | #1,634 |
| 2004 | — | — | 93 | #1,476 |
| 2003 | — | — | 90 | #1,465 |
| 2002 | — | — | 108 | #1,266 |
| 2001 | — | — | 94 | #1,366 |
| 2000 | — | — | 99 | #1,313 |
| 1999 | — | — | 114 | #1,156 |
| 1998 | — | — | 104 | #1,196 |
| 1997 | — | — | 117 | #1,087 |
| 1996 | — | — | 120 | #1,029 |
| 1995 | — | — | 160 | #859 |
| 1994 | — | — | 153 | #871 |
| 1993 | — | — | 186 | #769 |
| 1992 | — | — | 186 | #768 |
| 1991 | — | — | 193 | #736 |
| 1990 | — | — | 222 | #680 |
| 1989 | — | — | 229 | #663 |
| 1988 | — | — | 239 | #616 |
| 1987 | — | — | 213 | #627 |
| 1986 | — | — | 233 | #584 |
| 1985 | — | — | 248 | #562 |
| 1984 | — | — | 257 | #539 |
| 1983 | 8 | #8,033 | 277 | #506 |
| 1982 | 7 | #9,218 | 303 | #488 |
| 1981 | — | — | 299 | #485 |
| 1980 | 5 | #12,116 | 317 | #474 |
| 1979 | — | — | 279 | #499 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,728 | 319 | #445 |
| 1977 | 5 | #11,301 | 289 | #474 |
| 1976 | — | — | 283 | #468 |
| 1975 | 6 | #9,043 | 323 | #442 |
| 1974 | — | — | 329 | #437 |
| 1973 | — | — | 389 | #393 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,950 | 432 | #379 |
| 1971 | — | — | 534 | #346 |
| 1970 | — | — | 537 | #350 |
| 1969 | 15 | #3,772 | 561 | #327 |
| 1968 | 15 | #3,606 | 615 | #303 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,478 | 666 | #279 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,803 | 716 | #276 |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,486 | 862 | #254 |
| 1964 | 20 | #2,912 | 1,014 | #242 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,798 | 1,075 | #228 |
| 1962 | 21 | #2,739 | 1,092 | #233 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,601 | 1,220 | #227 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,173 | 1,147 | #238 |
| 1959 | 21 | #2,595 | 1,201 | #228 |
| 1958 | 11 | #3,918 | 1,188 | #221 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,301 | 1,113 | #227 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,461 | 1,013 | #230 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,569 | 966 | #229 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,292 | 945 | #229 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,807 | 886 | #227 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,898 | 879 | #225 |
| 1951 | 9 | #4,006 | 871 | #221 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,230 | 842 | #218 |
| 1949 | 11 | #3,391 | 712 | #244 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,343 | 676 | #247 |
| 1947 | 12 | #3,235 | 716 | #246 |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,027 | 613 | #252 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,127 | 587 | #229 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,228 | 697 | #209 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,682 | 812 | #199 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,657 | 846 | #187 |
| 1941 | 15 | #2,268 | 1,094 | #157 |
| 1940 | 25 | #1,589 | 1,625 | #114 |
| 1939 | — | — | 596 | #206 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,330 | 580 | #212 |
| 1937 | 9 | #3,140 | 583 | #206 |
| 1936 | — | — | 629 | #196 |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,189 | 655 | #194 |
| 1934 | — | — | 618 | #199 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,207 | 593 | #200 |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,075 | 650 | #197 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,966 | 641 | #203 |
| 1930 | 7 | #4,029 | 672 | #202 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,131 | 639 | #206 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,736 | 658 | #206 |
| 1927 | 8 | #3,861 | 626 | #213 |
| 1926 | — | — | 640 | #216 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,417 | 682 | #205 |
| 1924 | — | — | 633 | #214 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,720 | 617 | #210 |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,650 | 600 | #221 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,841 | 587 | #227 |
| 1920 | 11 | #3,087 | 544 | #232 |
| 1919 | — | — | 473 | #242 |
| 1918 | — | — | 519 | #232 |
| 1917 | — | — | 466 | #235 |
| 1916 | — | — | 515 | #213 |
| 1915 | — | — | 490 | #213 |
| 1914 | — | — | 350 | #227 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,323 | 243 | #243 |
| 1912 | — | — | 212 | #242 |
| 1911 | — | — | 94 | #270 |
| 1910 | — | — | 69 | #301 |
| 1909 | — | — | 50 | #329 |
| 1908 | — | — | 63 | #271 |
| 1907 | — | — | 42 | #330 |
| 1906 | — | — | 40 | #329 |
| 1905 | — | — | 31 | #383 |
| 1904 | — | — | 32 | #359 |
| 1903 | — | — | 22 | #450 |
| 1902 | — | — | 38 | #316 |
| 1901 | — | — | 18 | #465 |
| 1900 | — | — | 30 | #418 |
| 1899 | — | — | 22 | #401 |
| 1898 | — | — | 23 | #416 |
| 1897 | — | — | 24 | #391 |
| 1896 | — | — | 18 | #498 |
| 1895 | — | — | 23 | #413 |
| 1894 | — | — | 21 | #418 |
| 1893 | — | — | 11 | #648 |
| 1892 | — | — | 21 | #421 |
| 1891 | — | — | 8 | #763 |
| 1890 | — | — | 11 | #628 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,108 |
| 1888 | — | — | 17 | #481 |
| 1887 | — | — | 8 | #748 |
| 1886 | — | — | 12 | #574 |
| 1885 | — | — | 9 | #695 |
| 1884 | — | — | 11 | #608 |
| 1883 | — | — | 7 | #796 |
| 1881 | — | — | 8 | #702 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #904 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).