girls:
567 births since 1913
#5149 (10th percentile)
boys:
53.6k births since 1880
#473 (90th percentile)
overall:
54.2k births since 1880
#1026 (87th percentile)
The name Wendell is the #1,026 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 54,189 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 86.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 86.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #473 (89.7% percentile) for all time with 53,622 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,149 (9.9% percentile) for all time with 567 births since 1913.
Wendell has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1913 for girls). Birth data for Wendell is available in 143 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (143 years for boys and 54 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 Wendell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Wendell reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 78.6% percentile (ranked #113) with 1,370 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 1,370 births per million (ranked 78.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Wendell ranks #815 for boys (10.5% percentile) with 55 births per million, which is 4.0% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Wendell reached its peak popularity in 1940, achieving the 3.4% percentile (ranked #568) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1940, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2019.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wendell".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Wendell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.0% confident that Wendell is pronounced as WEHN-duhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is WEHN-dehl, at 35.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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