Wednesday

#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births

Peak · girls
2023 · 154 births
Debut · girls
15 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,704
since 1965

Wednesday over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wednesday has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201966peak #1,446, 2023girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#3,90337
2024#2,41375
2023#1,446154
2022#2,00697
2021#1,791113
2020#2,31776
2019#2,30578
2018#2,67764
2017#2,59767
2016#3,18251
2015#2,84661
2014#4,00337
2013#3,31448
2012#4,60131
2011#4,46632
2010#4,97428
2009#4,57132
2008#4,17937
2007#5,37726
2006#6,35620
2005#10,9219
2004#7,39115
2003#11,3258
2002#10,2469
2001#10,1029
2000#7,58013
1999#8,22311
1998#6,36015
1997#5,22819
1996#6,06415
1995#5,95815
1994#5,24918
1993#4,82620
1992#7,06712
1991#7,43011
1990#8,5019
1989#7,44910
1988#8,3918
1987#9,8256
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1985#9,3076
1984#8,1537
1983#8,0477
1982#5,91111
1981#8,1287
1980#5,91211
1979#6,18910
1978#5,21412
1977#3,48621
1976#4,90512
1975#3,95016
1974#3,11022
1973#3,78716
1972#2,97622
1971#2,80125
1970#3,03022
1969#3,61915
1968#3,61014
1967#3,34015
1966#2,58622
1965#3,26415
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First appearance
1965

The first year at least five girls were named Wednesday! It came in at #3,264, and was given to 15 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1986, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

Where Wednesday is popular in 1966

No state had 5 or more girls named Wednesday in 1966, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wednesday
Momentum · girls
Falling
  • 1,490 spots since 2024 (#2,413 → #3,903)
  • 1,586 spots since 2020 (#2,317 → #3,903)
  • 1,057 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #3,903)
Rise & fade · girls
58 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1965
  • Peaked 2023 at #1,446 (154 births)
  • Births halved by 2024, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 10,419
  • Highest: 1 in 10,419 girls born in 2023 were named Wednesday (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 43,440 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2020s
  • 32.4% of all girls named Wednesday (552) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1960s81#2,586 (1966)#3,284
1970s178#2,801 (1971)#3,945
1980s73#5,911 (1982)#7,903
1990s145#4,826 (1993)#6,491
2000s178#4,179 (2008)#7,805
2010s497#2,305 (2019)#3,497
2020s552#1,446 (2023)#2,313

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wednesday in 1966

girls
#2,586
22 births · 1 in 76,917 girls

Top girls' names in 1966

  1. #1Lisa56,918
  2. #2Kimberly32,232
  3. #3Mary28,890
  4. #4Michelle27,159
  5. #5Karen25,450
  6. #6Susan23,776
  7. #7Patricia20,112
  8. #8Tammy18,621
  9. #9Angela18,532
  10. #10Jennifer18,215
  11. #2,586Wednesday22
More about 1966

girls

1,692,177 girls got a published name in 1966; 1 in 76,917 of them was named Wednesday, which outranked 66.1% of the 7,624 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wednesday
  1. #2,519Wayne23
  2. #2,519Yolande23
  3. #2,519Yvetta23
  4. #2,586Wednesday22
  5. #2,586Abbe22
  6. #2,586Alona22
  7. #2,586Andi22
  8. #2,668Alica21
  9. #2,668Allyn21
  10. #2,668Amyjo21

Tied with 81 names at #2,586; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1965
Risers
  1. ↑ 6,121Tabatha#6,539 → #418
  2. ↑ 1,469Tabitha#1,993 → #524
  3. ↑ 1,325Joell#2,247 → #922
  4. ↑ 1,047Tatia#1,715 → #668
  5. ↑ 969Nichole#1,829 → #860
Fallers
  1. ↓ 398Barb#815 → #1,213
  2. ↓ 310Jewell#952 → #1,262
  3. ↓ 288Roxie#944 → #1,232
  4. ↓ 284Aretha#818 → #1,102
  5. ↓ 280Kecia#392 → #672

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1966 →