girls:
2.2k births since 1938
#3669 (36th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1938
#5592 (28th percentile)
The name Wendie is the #5,592 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,200 recorded births since 1938. This represents the 27.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,669 (35.8% percentile) for all time with 2,200 births since 1938.
Wendie first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1938 (first recorded for girls in 1938). Birth data for Wendie is available in 62 out of the 73 years between 1938 and 2010. 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.
For girls, Wendie reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 10.9% percentile (ranked #689) with 49 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 49 births per million (ranked 10.9% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wendie".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wendie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Wendie is pronounced as WEHN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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