Meaning not yet researched.
Wendy: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 165 in 2025. Its best rank was #28 in 1970.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #28 in 1970; #1,347 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Wendy in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,347 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1970, at #28.
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Wendy: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 165 girls in 2025. Peak: #28 in 1970 · most girls in one year: 11,223 (1967).
In 2025, 165 US girls were named Wendy, making it the 1,347th most common girls’ name of the year, down 250 places from #1,097 in 2024. That is 60 fewer than the 225 girls named Wendy in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #28, reached in 1970. The most girls given the name in a single year was 11,223, in 1967. For comparison, it was #944 in 2015 and #114 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Wendy in 102 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 263,276 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 89,212 babies named Wendy.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,203 US girls were named Wendy; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 328. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,741 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Wendy ranked highest in Wisconsin in 2025, at #697 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gwendolyn (124,718 babies since 1880), Wendie (2,200 babies since 1880), Wendi (14,522 babies since 1880) and Windy (4,983 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Wendee, Windi and Gwendoline are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Wen.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Wendee (790), Windi (458), Gwendoline (358), Wyndi (173), Gwendolin (79), Wendye (28), Wyndy (28), Wendey (7), Guendalina (5), Wenndy (5).
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.
Wendy is listed as a nickname for Gwen, Gwendolyn.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | 7 | #697 | #969 |
| Tennessee | 8 | #883 | #1,244 |
| Washington | 7 | #910 | #642 |
| Arizona | 6 | #1,029 | #1,085 |
| Georgia | 9 | #1,069 | #1,052 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,126 | — |
| New York | 11 | #1,308 | #755 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,321 | #1,465 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,367 | #723 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,459 | #925 |
| California | 16 | #1,480 | #512 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,624 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 165 | #1,347 | — | — |
| 2024 | 225 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 2023 | 176 | #1,301 | — | — |
| 2022 | 192 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2021 | 196 | #1,214 | — | — |
| 2020 | 196 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 2019 | 222 | #1,107 | — | — |
| 2018 | 273 | #970 | — | — |
| 2017 | 230 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 2016 | 328 | #860 | — | — |
| 2015 | 288 | #944 | — | — |
| 2014 | 359 | #782 | — | — |
| 2013 | 395 | #708 | — | — |
| 2012 | 359 | #769 | — | — |
| 2011 | 419 | #676 | 5 | #14,239 |
| 2010 | 498 | #591 | — | — |
| 2009 | 600 | #504 | — | — |
| 2008 | 688 | #461 | — | — |
| 2007 | 864 | #382 | — | — |
| 2006 | 930 | #355 | 5 | #13,937 |
| 2005 | 901 | #350 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,039 | #308 | 7 | #9,897 |
| 2003 | 1,087 | #286 | 6 | #10,841 |
| 2002 | 1,209 | #261 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,255 | #253 | 8 | #8,307 |
| 2000 | 1,004 | #317 | 9 | #7,382 |
| 1999 | 899 | #337 | 6 | #9,860 |
| 1998 | 867 | #339 | — | — |
| 1997 | 907 | #321 | 6 | #9,219 |
| 1996 | 969 | #297 | 10 | #5,966 |
| 1995 | 1,039 | #265 | 8 | #6,968 |
| 1994 | 1,131 | #246 | 8 | #6,948 |
| 1993 | 1,259 | #219 | 14 | #4,440 |
| 1992 | 1,269 | #222 | — | — |
| 1991 | 1,343 | #216 | 24 | #2,824 |
| 1990 | 1,397 | #206 | 16 | #3,770 |
| 1989 | 1,341 | #198 | 18 | #3,323 |
| 1988 | 1,292 | #203 | 10 | #4,770 |
| 1987 | 1,356 | #200 | 15 | #3,332 |
| 1986 | 1,517 | #177 | 23 | #2,426 |
| 1985 | 1,781 | #162 | 15 | #3,213 |
| 1984 | 2,024 | #146 | 7 | #5,536 |
| 1983 | 2,388 | #125 | 11 | #3,877 |
| 1982 | 2,820 | #105 | 16 | #2,969 |
| 1981 | 3,608 | #90 | 24 | #2,202 |
| 1980 | 4,141 | #75 | 19 | #2,613 |
| 1979 | 4,500 | #64 | 26 | #2,046 |
| 1978 | 4,918 | #56 | 17 | #2,664 |
| 1977 | 5,764 | #49 | 28 | #1,856 |
| 1976 | 6,464 | #39 | 28 | #1,826 |
| 1975 | 7,473 | #33 | 30 | #1,702 |
| 1974 | 7,564 | #32 | 28 | #1,745 |
| 1973 | 7,810 | #29 | 29 | #1,652 |
| 1972 | 8,529 | #29 | 34 | #1,471 |
| 1971 | 10,063 | #29 | 34 | #1,493 |
| 1970 | 11,100 | #28 | 42 | #1,296 |
| 1969 | 10,624 | #29 | 27 | #1,602 |
| 1968 | 10,709 | #31 | 26 | #1,572 |
| 1967 | 11,223 | #32 | 36 | #1,273 |
| 1966 | 9,516 | #41 | 32 | #1,371 |
| 1965 | 10,481 | #39 | 25 | #1,594 |
| 1964 | 8,076 | #55 | 23 | #1,699 |
| 1963 | 7,333 | #60 | 21 | #1,791 |
| 1962 | 6,977 | #64 | 23 | #1,712 |
| 1961 | 7,154 | #61 | 15 | #2,239 |
| 1960 | 6,870 | #63 | 21 | #1,810 |
| 1959 | 5,712 | #83 | 13 | #2,407 |
| 1958 | 4,485 | #107 | 17 | #2,024 |
| 1957 | 4,700 | #101 | 17 | #2,016 |
| 1956 | 4,861 | #95 | 13 | #2,360 |
| 1955 | 4,955 | #90 | 12 | #2,429 |
| 1954 | 4,415 | #95 | 8 | #3,168 |
| 1953 | 3,616 | #110 | 11 | #2,525 |
| 1952 | 3,556 | #105 | 6 | #3,720 |
| 1951 | 3,345 | #110 | 5 | #4,236 |
| 1950 | 3,030 | #114 | 9 | #2,764 |
| 1949 | 2,612 | #122 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,517 | #182 | — | — |
| 1947 | 974 | #241 | 5 | #4,248 |
| 1946 | 762 | #262 | — | — |
| 1945 | 575 | #290 | — | — |
| 1944 | 447 | #321 | — | — |
| 1943 | 455 | #331 | — | — |
| 1942 | 481 | #317 | — | — |
| 1941 | 346 | #359 | — | — |
| 1940 | 254 | #428 | — | — |
| 1939 | 222 | #451 | — | — |
| 1938 | 130 | #602 | — | — |
| 1937 | 80 | #767 | — | — |
| 1936 | 67 | #826 | — | — |
| 1935 | 27 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,919 | — | — |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,825 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,219 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,106 | — | — |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,336 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,631 | — | — |
| 1921 | 7 | #4,445 | — | — |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,562 | — | — |
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).