Wende

Where Wende comes from

Wende hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1941
    Wende Wagner born
    American film and television actress
  2. 1943
    First appearance
    #4,196 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1967
    Peak, #857
    139 babies named Wende — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,459.
  5. 1978
    Wende born
    Dutch singer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Wende Wagner · American film and television actress, 1941–1997
  • Wende · Dutch singer, born 1978

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.