Wenda
Last seen for girls in 1982 at #10,517
- Peak · girls
- 1949 · 35 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,001since 1935
Wenda over time
Rank among girls' names. Wenda 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.
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| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #9,095 | 6 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 |
| 1977 | — | |
| 1976 | #9,284 | 5 |
| 1975 | #4,854 | 12 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,523 | 12 |
| 1971 | #4,311 | 13 |
| 1970 | #2,938 | 23 |
| 1969 | #2,917 | 21 |
| 1968 | #2,482 | 25 |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 |
| 1966 | #2,022 | 33 |
| 1965 | #2,247 | 28 |
| 1964 | #1,867 | 40 |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 |
| 1961 | #1,838 | 39 |
| 1960 | #1,887 | 36 |
| 1959 | #1,985 | 32 |
| 1958 | #2,167 | 27 |
| 1957 | #1,652 | 42 |
| 1956 | #1,617 | 43 |
| 1955 | #1,877 | 32 |
| 1954 | #1,648 | 38 |
| 1953 | #1,931 | 28 |
| 1952 | #1,713 | 33 |
| 1951 | #1,637 | 34 |
| 1950 | #1,602 | 34 |
| 1949 | #1,564 | 35 |
| 1948 | #1,669 | 31 |
| 1947 | #1,897 | 26 |
| 1946 | #2,482 | 15 |
| 1945 | #2,916 | 10 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 |
| 1942 | #2,311 | 15 |
| 1941 | #1,696 | 22 |
| 1940 | #2,424 | 12 |
| 1939 | #2,417 | 12 |
| 1938 | #2,113 | 15 |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Wenda! It came in at #3,431, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1976–1977, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Wenda is popular in 1960
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Pennsylvania#925 · 1 in 22,337
- New York#1,295 · 1 in 33,540
Best ever in a state: #632 in Pennsylvania, 1941.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Pennsylvania | #925 | 5 | 1 in 22,337 |
| New York | #1,295 | 5 | 1 in 33,540 |
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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 Wenda
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1982
- Debuted 1935
- Peaked 1949 at #1,564 (35 births)
- Births halved by 1971, 22 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 46,691 girls born in 1956 were named Wenda (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 338,665 girls born in 1982 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,564 in 1949, was only 1 in 48,882 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 34.3% of all girls named Wenda (343) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1930s | 49 | #2,113 (1938) | #2,920 |
| 1940s | 183 | #1,564 (1949) | #2,359 |
| 1950s | 343 | #1,602 (1950) | #1,783 |
| 1960s | 310 | #1,838 (1961) | #2,209 |
| 1970s | 100 | #2,938 (1970) | #5,929 |
| 1980s | 16 | #9,095 (1980) | #10,008 |
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.
Wenda in 1960
Top girls' names in 1960
More about 1960
girls
2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 56,165 of them was named Wenda, which outranked 74.3% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,855Wynona37
- #1,855Zella37
- #1,855Zenobia37
- #1,887Wenda36
- #1,887Adelaide36
- #1,887Adella36
- #1,887Adina36
- #1,925Arla35
- #1,925Augusta35
- #1,925Barri35
Tied with 37 names at #1,887; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.