Wendolyn
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births · Last seen for boys in 1952 at #3,734
Given to girls 99.1% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1966 · 39 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,166since 1928
Wendolyn over time
Rank among girls' names. Wendolyn 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.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,917 | 8 | — | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | — | |
| 2021 | — | — | ||
| 2020 | — | — | ||
| 2019 | — | — | ||
| 2018 | — | — | ||
| 2017 | — | — | ||
| 2016 | — | — | ||
| 2015 | — | — | ||
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | — | |
| 2013 | — | — | ||
| 2012 | — | — | ||
| 2011 | — | — | ||
| 2010 | — | — | ||
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | — | — | ||
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | — | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | — | |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | — | |
| 2004 | #10,690 | 9 | — | |
| 2003 | #12,408 | 7 | — | |
| 2002 | — | — | ||
| 2001 | #10,102 | 9 | — | |
| 2000 | #13,154 | 6 | — | |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 | — | |
| 1998 | — | — | ||
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | — | |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | — | |
| 1995 | #8,079 | 10 | — | |
| 1994 | #8,122 | 10 | — | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 | — | |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | — | |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | — | |
| 1990 | #6,867 | 12 | — | |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | — | |
| 1988 | #9,244 | 7 | — | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,955 | 9 | — | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,457 | 12 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #4,532 | 16 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,609 | 22 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,052 | 18 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 | — | |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,407 | 20 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,161 | 11 | — | |
| 1974 | #2,757 | 26 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,689 | 26 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,820 | 24 | — | |
| 1971 | #2,375 | 32 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,395 | 31 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,396 | 29 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,205 | 30 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,039 | 33 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,827 | 39 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,154 | 30 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,489 | 24 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,889 | 37 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,070 | 32 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,953 | 34 | — | |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,025 | 30 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,957 | 31 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,929 | 16 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,940 | 30 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,949 | 29 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,931 | 28 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,411 | 19 | #3,734 | 5 |
| 1951 | #2,116 | 22 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,850 | 13 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,974 | 12 | — | |
| 1947 | #2,769 | 14 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #4,054 | 6 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 | — | |
| 1942 | — | — | ||
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| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
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| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | #3,776 | 5 |
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| 1928 | #4,725 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Wendolyn! It came in at #4,725, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1928–1942, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Wendolyn is popular in 1952
No state had 5 or more girls named Wendolyn in 1952, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Wendolyn
- Debuted 1928
- Peaked 1966 at #1,827 (39 births)
- Births halved by 1975, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 43,389 girls born in 1966 were named Wendolyn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.8% of all girls named Wendolyn (324) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 5 | #4,725 (1928) | #4,725 |
| 1930s | 15 | #4,181 (1936) | #4,311 |
| 1940s | 69 | #2,769 (1947) | #3,684 |
| 1950s | 254 | #1,931 (1953) | #2,157 |
| 1960s | 324 | #1,827 (1966) | #2,100 |
| 1970s | 218 | #2,375 (1971) | #3,497 |
| 1980s | 110 | #3,609 (1980) | #7,129 |
| 1990s | 86 | #6,652 (1992) | #8,743 |
| 2000s | 56 | #10,102 (2001) | #13,322 |
| 2010s | 7 | #13,069 (2014) | #13,069 |
| 2020s | 22 | #10,917 (2025) | #11,786 |
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.
Wendolyn in 1952
Top girls' names in 1952
Top boys' names in 1952
More about 1952
girls
1,854,335 girls got a published name in 1952; 1 in 97,597 of them was named Wendolyn, which outranked 62.3% of the 6,389 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,327Yvonna20
- #2,327Zana20
- #2,327Zena20
- #2,411Wendolyn19
- #2,411Ailene19
- #2,411Arie19
- #2,411Athena19
- #2,502Alease18
- #2,502Alona18
- #2,502Alvera18
Tied with 90 names at #2,411; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,943,633 boys got a published name in 1952; 1 in 388,727 of them was named Wendolyn, which outranked 12.3% of the 4,257 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 523 names at #3,734; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.