Wenda

Last seen for girls in 1982 at #10,517

Peak · girls
1949 · 35 births
Debut · girls
7 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,001
since 1935

Wenda over time

girls

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

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201971peak #1,564, 1949girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1982#10,5175
1981#10,4115
1980#9,0956
1979#10,2105
1978#7,6497
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1976#9,2845
1975#4,85412
1974#4,72012
1973#4,87111
1972#4,52312
1971#4,31113
1970#2,93823
1969#2,91721
1968#2,48225
1967#2,86819
1966#2,02233
1965#2,24728
1964#1,86740
1963#2,01534
1962#1,94735
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1959#1,98532
1958#2,16727
1957#1,65242
1956#1,61743
1955#1,87732
1954#1,64838
1953#1,93128
1952#1,71333
1951#1,63734
1950#1,60234
1949#1,56435
1948#1,66931
1947#1,89726
1946#2,48215
1945#2,91610
1944#3,3788
1943#3,2499
1942#2,31115
1941#1,69622
1940#2,42412
1939#2,41712
1938#2,11315
1937#2,9409
1936#3,7016
1935#3,4317
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First appearance
1935

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 1971

No state had 5 or more girls named Wenda in 1971, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Wenda
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1982
Rise & fade · girls
14 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1935
  • Peaked 1949 at #1,564 (35 births)
  • Births halved by 1971, 22 yrs 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 46,691
  • 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
Era · girls
The 1950s
  • 34.3% of all girls named Wenda (343) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s49#2,113 (1938)#2,920
1940s183#1,564 (1949)#2,359
1950s343#1,602 (1950)#1,783
1960s310#1,838 (1961)#2,209
1970s100#2,938 (1970)#5,929
1980s16#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 1971

girls
#4,311
13 births · 1 in 127,986 girls

Top girls' names in 1971

  1. #1Jennifer56,771
  2. #2Michelle33,160
  3. #3Lisa32,907
  4. #4Kimberly30,708
  5. #5Amy26,237
  6. #6Angela25,901
  7. #7Melissa23,875
  8. #8Tammy17,656
  9. #9Mary16,703
  10. #10Julie15,322
  11. #4,311Wenda13
More about 1971

girls

1,663,823 girls got a published name in 1971; 1 in 127,986 of them was named Wenda, which outranked 55.3% of the 9,645 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.8% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wenda
  1. #4,123Yecenia14
  2. #4,123Zenja14
  3. #4,123Zora14
  4. #4,311Wenda13
  5. #4,311Adelaide13
  6. #4,311Alayna13
  7. #4,311Alayne13
  8. #4,534Adora12
  9. #4,534Ailsa12
  10. #4,534Allena12

Tied with 222 names at #4,311; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1970
Risers
  1. ↑ 2,115Yesenia#2,522 → #407
  2. ↑ 1,431Shayla#2,267 → #836
  3. ↑ 853Ebony#1,681 → #828
  4. ↑ 749Consuela#1,706 → #957
  5. ↑ 510Candida#1,196 → #686
Fallers
  1. ↓ 572Sebrina#916 → #1,488
  2. ↓ 382Janene#684 → #1,066
  3. ↓ 375Treena#989 → #1,364
  4. ↓ 356Tisa#910 → #1,266
  5. ↓ 351Shaun#929 → #1,280

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

See the top 100 for 1971 →