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#3,969 in 2025Girls' name

Woden's day

Wednesday has been given to 1,704 babies in the U.S. since 1965. In 2025 it ranked #3,969 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 154 recorded.

Babies named Wednesday, 2025

1 in 89,600

Wednesday over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wednesday: meaning, origin, and history

Woden's day

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wednesday means

Wednesday means “Woden's day”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,704 girls were recorded with the name Wednesday between 1965 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 154 in 2023; its best national rank was #1,453 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,340 in 2020 to #3,969 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,886 in 2015 to #3,969 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Wednesday?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 89,600
37 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 43,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#3,969
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
62,106 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wednesday sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 62,106 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wednesday. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wednesdays were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wednesday was born before 2015 — so the typical Wednesday is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
32.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,704
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 32.4% of all recorded uses (552).

Is Wednesday rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−1,536
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,629
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,083
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.0%
Peak was 2023 (154)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
34.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,453
2023

Where Wednesday is used

Across 2016–2025, Wednesday was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 25,614 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

16 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 16,667
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 16,667
  4. 4Texas1 in 16,667
  5. 5Kansas1 in 20,000
  6. 6Michigan1 in 20,000
  7. 7Alabama1 in 33,333
  8. 8Florida1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Wednesday around the world

Where Wednesday ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,201
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2012–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1995–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Wednesday by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#3,969
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,629
Best rank ever
#1,453
2023
Peak year
2023
154 that year
First recorded
1965
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,704
Count in 2025
37

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Sibling names for Wednesday

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