Wednesday
#3,903 for girls in 2025, 37 births
- Peak · girls
- 2023 · 154 births
- Debut · girls
- 15 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,704since 1965
Wednesday over time
Rank among girls' names. Wednesday has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,903 | 37 |
| 2024 | #2,413 | 75 |
| 2023 | #1,446 | 154 |
| 2022 | #2,006 | 97 |
| 2021 | #1,791 | 113 |
| 2020 | #2,317 | 76 |
| 2019 | #2,305 | 78 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 |
| 2017 | #2,597 | 67 |
| 2016 | #3,182 | 51 |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 |
| 2014 | #4,003 | 37 |
| 2013 | #3,314 | 48 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 |
| 2009 | #4,571 | 32 |
| 2008 | #4,179 | 37 |
| 2007 | #5,377 | 26 |
| 2006 | #6,356 | 20 |
| 2005 | #10,921 | 9 |
| 2004 | #7,391 | 15 |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 |
| 2002 | #10,246 | 9 |
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 |
| 1999 | #8,223 | 11 |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 |
| 1995 | #5,958 | 15 |
| 1994 | #5,249 | 18 |
| 1993 | #4,826 | 20 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 |
| 1990 | #8,501 | 9 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 |
| 1988 | #8,391 | 8 |
| 1987 | #9,825 | 6 |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
| 1984 | #8,153 | 7 |
| 1983 | #8,047 | 7 |
| 1982 | #5,911 | 11 |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 |
| 1980 | #5,912 | 11 |
| 1979 | #6,189 | 10 |
| 1978 | #5,214 | 12 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 |
| 1973 | #3,787 | 16 |
| 1972 | #2,976 | 22 |
| 1971 | #2,801 | 25 |
| 1970 | #3,030 | 22 |
| 1969 | #3,619 | 15 |
| 1968 | #3,610 | 14 |
| 1967 | #3,340 | 15 |
| 1966 | #2,586 | 22 |
| 1965 | #3,264 | 15 |
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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 2017
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- South Carolina#744 · 1 in 3,551
- Florida#1,639 · 1 in 12,280
- California#1,995 · 1 in 17,796
- Texas#2,328 · 1 in 19,984
Best ever in a state: #499 in Kansas, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| South Carolina | #744 | 5 | 1 in 3,551 |
| Florida | #1,639 | 7 | 1 in 12,280 |
| California | #1,995 | 11 | 1 in 17,796 |
| Texas | #2,328 | 8 | 1 in 19,984 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Wednesday
- 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)
- Debuted 1965
- Peaked 2023 at #1,446 (154 births)
- Births halved by 2024, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 32.4% of all girls named Wednesday (552) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 81 | #2,586 (1966) | #3,284 |
| 1970s | 178 | #2,801 (1971) | #3,945 |
| 1980s | 73 | #5,911 (1982) | #7,903 |
| 1990s | 145 | #4,826 (1993) | #6,491 |
| 2000s | 178 | #4,179 (2008) | #7,805 |
| 2010s | 497 | #2,305 (2019) | #3,497 |
| 2020s | 552 | #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 2017
Top girls' names in 2017
More about 2017
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1,726,461 girls got a published name in 2017; 1 in 25,768 of them was named Wednesday, which outranked 85.9% of the 18,448 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,573Shriya68
- #2,573Tayler68
- #2,573Zoee68
- #2,597Wednesday67
- #2,597Abrianna67
- #2,597Adyson67
- #2,597Aisley67
- #2,635Alise66
- #2,635Arisbeth66
- #2,635Bethel66
Tied with 37 names at #2,597; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 263Julianne#919 → #1,182
- ↓ 243Milania#947 → #1,190
- ↓ 240Wendy#858 → #1,098
- ↓ 238Montserrat#808 → #1,046
- ↓ 224Nathaly#930 → #1,154
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.