Wende
Last seen for girls in 1990 at #12,958
- Peak · girls
- 1967 · 139 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,377since 1943
Wende over time
Rank among girls' names. Wende has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
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| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 |
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| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 |
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| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 |
| 1980 | #4,148 | 18 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #6,948 | 8 |
| 1977 | #3,486 | 21 |
| 1976 | #2,486 | 32 |
| 1975 | #3,155 | 22 |
| 1974 | #2,348 | 33 |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 |
| 1971 | #1,528 | 65 |
| 1970 | #1,490 | 67 |
| 1969 | #1,465 | 64 |
| 1968 | #1,459 | 60 |
| 1967 | #857 | 139 |
| 1966 | #1,189 | 81 |
| 1965 | #1,463 | 57 |
| 1964 | #1,836 | 41 |
| 1963 | #2,172 | 30 |
| 1962 | #1,947 | 35 |
| 1961 | #1,955 | 35 |
| 1960 | #1,523 | 53 |
| 1959 | #1,985 | 32 |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 |
| 1957 | #2,121 | 27 |
| 1956 | #1,693 | 39 |
| 1955 | #1,556 | 43 |
| 1954 | #1,801 | 33 |
| 1953 | #1,586 | 38 |
| 1952 | #1,746 | 32 |
| 1951 | #2,064 | 23 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 |
| 1949 | #1,767 | 29 |
| 1948 | #2,828 | 13 |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 |
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| 1943 | #4,196 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Wende! It came in at #4,196, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1944, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Wende is popular in 1972
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#1,365 · 1 in 18,473
Best ever in a state: #371 in Kansas, 1967.
Show every state
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| New York | #1,365 | 6 | 1 in 18,473 |
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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 Wende
- Not published in 2025; last seen 1990
- Biggest jump: 332 spots in 1967 (#1,189 → #857)
- Biggest drop: 602 spots in 1968 (#857 → #1,459)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1967 at #857 (139 births)
- Births halved by 1968, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1967
- Highest: 1 in 11,878 girls born in 1967 were named Wende (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 379,709 girls born in 1990 (0.00%)
- 43.2% of all girls named Wende (595) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1940s | 71 | #1,767 (1949) | #3,357 |
| 1950s | 314 | #1,556 (1955) | #1,914 |
| 1960s | 595 | #857 (1967) | #1,587 |
| 1970s | 343 | #1,490 (1970) | #3,052 |
| 1980s | 49 | #4,148 (1980) | #7,899 |
| 1990s | 5 | #12,958 (1990) | #12,958 |
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.
Wende in 1972
Top girls' names in 1972
More about 1972
girls
1,521,244 girls got a published name in 1972; 1 in 33,805 of them was named Wende, which outranked 80.8% of the 9,666 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,832Terrell46
- #1,832Toi46
- #1,832Venita46
- #1,856Wende45
- #1,856Anabel45
- #1,856Andrew45
- #1,856Asia45
- #1,890Alexia44
- #1,890Ammie44
- #1,890Angle44
Tied with 33 names at #1,856; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.