girls:
6 births since 1967
#5710 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1904
#2572 (44th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1904
#5403 (30th percentile)
The name Wendall is the #5,403 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,423 recorded births since 1904. This represents the 30.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,572 (43.9% percentile) for all time with 2,417 births since 1904. For girls, it ranks #5,710 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1967.
Wendall first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1904 (1904 for boys and 1967 for girls). Birth data for Wendall is available in 111 out of the 120 years between 1904 and 2023 (111 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Wendall has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wendall reached its peak popularity in 1958, achieving the 7.5% percentile (ranked #615) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1904, with 36 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Wendall ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 10.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wendall reached its peak popularity in 1967, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #737) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1967.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wendall".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Wendall is pronounced as WEHN-duhl, which has 2 syllables.
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