Wenona
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194
- Peak · girls
- 1921 · 36 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 1,168since 1907
Wenona over time
Rank among girls' names. Wenona 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #15,251 | 5 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | — | |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | — | |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | — | |
| 2010 | — | |
| 2009 | — | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 |
| 2007 | — | |
| 2006 | — | |
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| 1996 | — | |
| 1995 | — | |
| 1994 | — | |
| 1993 | #11,780 | 6 |
| 1992 | — | |
| 1991 | — | |
| 1990 | — | |
| 1989 | — | |
| 1988 | — | |
| 1987 | #8,778 | 7 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 |
| 1985 | — | |
| 1984 | — | |
| 1983 | — | |
| 1982 | — | |
| 1981 | #5,254 | 13 |
| 1980 | #6,789 | 9 |
| 1979 | #3,236 | 25 |
| 1978 | #3,098 | 25 |
| 1977 | #1,952 | 50 |
| 1976 | #1,820 | 51 |
| 1975 | #1,780 | 52 |
| 1974 | #2,029 | 41 |
| 1973 | #2,349 | 32 |
| 1972 | #1,856 | 45 |
| 1971 | #2,001 | 42 |
| 1970 | #2,577 | 28 |
| 1969 | #2,645 | 25 |
| 1968 | #4,222 | 11 |
| 1967 | #4,982 | 8 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 |
| 1965 | #5,289 | 7 |
| 1964 | #4,096 | 11 |
| 1963 | #4,272 | 10 |
| 1962 | #3,438 | 14 |
| 1961 | #3,460 | 14 |
| 1960 | #3,357 | 14 |
| 1959 | #3,619 | 12 |
| 1958 | #3,747 | 11 |
| 1957 | #3,696 | 11 |
| 1956 | #3,493 | 12 |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 |
| 1954 | #3,967 | 9 |
| 1953 | #3,955 | 9 |
| 1952 | #3,796 | 9 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 |
| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 |
| 1945 | #2,742 | 11 |
| 1944 | #2,625 | 12 |
| 1943 | #3,801 | 7 |
| 1942 | #2,817 | 11 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 |
| 1939 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 |
| 1937 | #2,940 | 9 |
| 1936 | #2,032 | 15 |
| 1935 | #2,575 | 11 |
| 1934 | #2,567 | 11 |
| 1933 | #2,161 | 14 |
| 1932 | #3,274 | 8 |
| 1931 | #2,427 | 12 |
| 1930 | #3,055 | 9 |
| 1929 | #2,921 | 10 |
| 1928 | #2,954 | 10 |
| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 |
| 1926 | #2,257 | 16 |
| 1925 | #2,191 | 17 |
| 1924 | #2,062 | 19 |
| 1923 | #2,169 | 17 |
| 1922 | #1,430 | 32 |
| 1921 | #1,298 | 36 |
| 1920 | #1,375 | 33 |
| 1919 | #2,156 | 16 |
| 1918 | #2,519 | 13 |
| 1917 | #1,605 | 23 |
| 1916 | #2,133 | 15 |
| 1915 | #2,050 | 15 |
| 1914 | #2,434 | 9 |
| 1913 | #2,540 | 7 |
| 1912 | — | |
| 1911 | #2,191 | 6 |
| 1910 | — | |
| 1909 | — | |
| 1908 | — | |
| 1907 | #1,821 | 6 |
| 1906 | — | |
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| 1881 | — | |
| 1880 | — | |
The first year at least five girls were named Wenona! It came in at #1,821, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1908–1910, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Wenona is popular in 1975
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#1,401 · 1 in 17,306
Best ever in a state: #304 in New Mexico, 1977.
Show every state
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| California | #1,401 | 8 | 1 in 17,306 |
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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 Wenona
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Debuted 1907
- Peaked 1921 at #1,298 (36 births)
- Births halved by 1923, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 28,036 girls born in 1975 were named Wenona (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,298 in 1921, was only 1 in 34,252 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 33.5% of all girls named Wenona (391) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 6 | #1,821 (1907) | #1,821 |
| 1910s | 104 | #1,605 (1917) | #2,204 |
| 1920s | 197 | #1,298 (1921) | #2,253 |
| 1930s | 103 | #2,032 (1936) | #2,584 |
| 1940s | 88 | #2,297 (1940) | #3,584 |
| 1950s | 95 | #3,493 (1956) | #3,936 |
| 1960s | 124 | #2,645 (1969) | #3,996 |
| 1970s | 391 | #1,780 (1975) | #2,270 |
| 1980s | 34 | #5,254 (1981) | #7,933 |
| 1990s | 6 | #11,780 (1993) | #11,780 |
| 2000s | 5 | #17,504 (2008) | #17,504 |
| 2010s | 5 | #15,682 (2018) | #15,682 |
| 2020s | 10 | #15,194 (2023) | #15,223 |
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.
Wenona in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
More about 1975
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1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 28,036 of them was named Wenona, which outranked 83.2% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,756Trinette53
- #1,756Willow53
- #1,756Yulanda53
- #1,780Wenona52
- #1,780Aletha52
- #1,780America52
- #1,780Angelene52
- #1,807Alyce51
- #1,807Annetta51
- #1,807Arianne51
Tied with 26 names at #1,780; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.