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Wendolyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,856 in 1966.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,856 in 1966; #11,865 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wendolyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,865 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1966, at #1,856.
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Wendolyn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,856 in 1966 · most girls in one year: 39 (1966).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Wendolyn, making it the 11,865th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #1,856, reached in 1966. That year also had the most girls given the name: 39. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #2,339 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wendolyn in 73 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1928 with 5 babies. In all, 1,176 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.9% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 324 babies named Wendolyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 22 US girls were named Wendolyn; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 8. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,865 | — | — |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,382 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,492 | — | — |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,489 | — | — |
| 2009 | 5 | #20,065 | — | — |
| 2007 | 7 | #15,395 | — | — |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,924 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,960 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,587 | — | — |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,787 | — | — |
| 2001 | 9 | #10,988 | — | — |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,962 | — | — |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,638 | — | — |
| 1997 | 10 | #9,003 | — | — |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,800 | — | — |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,746 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,782 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #13,401 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,059 | — | — |
| 1991 | 8 | #10,243 | — | — |
| 1990 | 12 | #7,289 | — | — |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,439 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #10,362 | — | — |
| 1987 | 5 | #13,211 | — | — |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,877 | — | — |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,541 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,390 | — | — |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,816 | — | — |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,712 | — | — |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,741 | — | — |
| 1980 | 22 | #3,718 | — | — |
| 1979 | 18 | #4,227 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,920 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,881 | — | — |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,537 | — | — |
| 1975 | 11 | #5,510 | — | — |
| 1974 | 26 | #2,832 | — | — |
| 1973 | 26 | #2,751 | — | — |
| 1972 | 24 | #2,901 | — | — |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,424 | — | — |
| 1970 | 31 | #2,448 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,244 | — | — |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,076 | — | — |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,856 | — | — |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,201 | — | — |
| 1964 | 36 | #2,010 | — | — |
| 1963 | 24 | #2,540 | — | — |
| 1962 | 37 | #1,916 | — | — |
| 1961 | 32 | #2,116 | — | — |
| 1960 | 34 | #1,980 | — | — |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,987 | — | — |
| 1956 | 16 | #3,045 | — | — |
| 1955 | 30 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 1954 | 29 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,971 | — | — |
| 1952 | 19 | #2,501 | 5 | #4,245 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,179 | — | — |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,995 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,135 | — | — |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,897 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,672 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,543 | — | — |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,563 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,794 | — | — |
| 1940 | 5 | #5,007 | — | — |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,975 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,838 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,076 | 5 | #4,264 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,414 | — | — |
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).