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Wendie

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Wendie has been given to 2,200 babies in the U.S. since 1938. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1970, with 89 recorded.

Babies named Wendie, 2010

1 in 616,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Wendie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Wendie means

Wendie is a given name.

The naming story behind Wendie

Wikidata records Wendie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q95921232, 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, 2,200 girls were recorded with the name Wendie between 1938 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 89 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,158 in 1951.

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 Wendie?

Wendie had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 616,000
6 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 296,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
426,971 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Wendie 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 2010 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 426,971 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wendie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Wendies were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Wendie was born before 1967 — so the typical Wendie is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
27.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.4%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,999
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 27.6% of all recorded uses (607).

Is Wendie 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1970 (89)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,158
1951

Spellings of Wendie

Wendie is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 48.0% against Wendie's 0.40%.

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 Wendie is used

Across 1910–2025, Wendie was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 134,566 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 100,000
  3. 3Minnesota1 in 100,000
  4. 4Montana1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Utah1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in —
  8. 8Illinois1 in —

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. Wendie has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Wendie around the world

Where Wendie 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.

  • France
    1984–2025
    #7,455
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    2005–2005
    #775
    in 2005

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Wendie

People whose public names include Wendie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Wendie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Wendie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Wendy

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Wendie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,158
1951
Peak year
1970
89 that year
First recorded
1938
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
2,200
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Wendie

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

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Names with a curve like Wendie

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

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Sibling names for Wendie

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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