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Wendall

#9,645 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Wendall has been given to 2,439 babies in the U.S. since 1904. In 2025 it ranked #9,645 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1958, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Wendall, 2025

1 in 414,000

Wendall over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wendall: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wendall means

Wendall is a given name.

The naming story behind Wendall

Wikidata records Wendall as a given name. The entity identifier is Q7982346, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,433 boys were recorded with the name Wendall between 1904 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 1958; its best national rank was #1,038 in 1958.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,011 in 2020 to #9,645 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,997 in 2015 to #9,645 in 2025.

In the United States, 6 girls were recorded with the name Wendall between 1967 and 1967. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1967; its best national rank was #6,787 in 1967.

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 Wendall?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,645
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wendall sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wendall. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wendalls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wendall was born before 1958 — so the typical Wendall is around 67 today.

Median birth year
1958
About 67 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
17.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,540
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1960s — 17.5% of all recorded uses (425).

Is Wendall 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
+170
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,634
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,648
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.5%
Peak was 1958 (55)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,038
1958

Spellings of Wendall

Wendall is not the most common spelling — Randall is, with 64.5% against Wendall's 0.79%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Wendall is used

Across 1910–2025, Wendall was most concentrated in Iowa — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 506,341 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Iowa1 in 100,000
  2. 2Maine1 in 100,000
  3. 3California1 in —
  4. 4Georgia1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Kentucky1 in —
  7. 7Louisiana1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Wendall has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wendall around the world

Where Wendall 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.

  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Wendall by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,645
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,634
Best rank ever
#1,038
1958
Peak year
1958
55 that year
First recorded
1904
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,433
Count in 2025
8

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#6,787
1967
Peak year
1967
6 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
1967
All-time count
6
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wendall

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

WendelKimballJamallNiallWendellConallWensleyRondallWendyKendallHallWendalWendelinLyndallWenceslaoWenzelLyallMccallWendleKyndallDarrallStonewallCrandallWenston

Names with a curve like Wendall

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Wendall, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DavieDoranStaffordAlphonzoRobyJameArnieDarelShellyEllerySalVernell

Sibling names for Wendall

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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