Wendel

Where Wendel comes from

Wendel 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.

Along the way
  1. 1911
    First appearance
    #1,740 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1940
    Peak, #952
    45 babies named Wendel — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1945
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,536.
  4. 1966
    Wendel Clark born
    Canadian ice hockey player
  5. 1982
    Wendel born
    Brazilian footballer
In the dictionary

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

Namesakes
  • Wendel · Brazilian footballer, born 1982
  • Wendel Clark · Canadian ice hockey player, born 1966
  • Wendel Dietterlin · German artist, 1550–1599
  • Wendel Raul Gonçalves Gomes · Brazilian footballer, born 1984
  • Wendel Suckow · American luger, born 1967

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.