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 | — | — | ||
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | #4,349 | 5 | — | |
| 1939 | — | — | ||
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
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| 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 1955
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#842 · 1 in 20,400
Best ever in a state: #571 in Louisiana, 1951.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | #842 | 5 | 1 in 20,400 |
| Alabama | — | — | — |
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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 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 1955
Top girls' names in 1955
More about 1955
girls
1,955,277 girls got a published name in 1955; 1 in 65,176 of them was named Wendolyn, which outranked 71.2% of the 6,732 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,907Syble31
- #1,907Vilma31
- #1,907Vivienne31
- #1,940Wendolyn30
- #1,940Aretha30
- #1,940Belle30
- #1,940Carolyne30
- #1,978Albert29
- #1,978Arlean29
- #1,978Arletha29
Tied with 37 names at #1,940; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.