Wendolyn
#11,861 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Wendolyn has been given to 1,176 babies in the U.S. since 1928. In 2025 it ranked #11,861 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1966, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Wendolyn, 2025
1 in 414,000
Wendolyn over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Wendolyn?
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 girls only
- 1 in 201,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #11,861
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 287,238 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Wendolyn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Wendolyn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Wendolyns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Wendolyn was born before 1967 — so the typical Wendolyn is around 58 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 27.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 6.8%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,077
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 27.8% of all recorded uses (324).
Is Wendolyn 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 20.5%
- Peak was 1966 (39)
- Years since peak
- 59
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.4% average annual change
Spellings of Wendolyn
Wendolyn is not the most common spelling — Gwendolyn is, with 95.2% against Wendolyn's 0.89%.
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 Wendolyn is used
Across 1910–2025, Wendolyn was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 772,063 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3Louisiana1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5Ohio1 in —
- 6Texas1 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. Wendolyn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Wendolyn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Wendolyn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Wendolyn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.