Fewer than five US girls were named Wendi in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #317, reached in 1971. The most girls given the name in a single year was 844, in 1970. For comparison, it was #16,305 in 2015 and #1,432 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wendi in 79 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 7 babies. In all, 14,522 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 5,946 babies named Wendi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 43 US girls were named Wendi; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 10.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Wendy (263,276 babies since 1880), Windy (4,983 babies since 1880) and Wendie (2,200 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Windie and Wyndie are summarised on this page.