girls:
261.9k births since 1918
#152 (97th percentile)
boys:
951 births since 1947
#3641 (21st percentile)
overall:
262.9k births since 1918
#299 (96th percentile)
The name Wendy is the #299 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 262,887 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 96.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #152 (97.4% percentile) for all time with 261,936 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #3,641 (20.6% percentile) for all time with 951 births since 1947.
Wendy first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 1947 for boys). Birth data for Wendy is available in 100 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (100 years for girls and 55 years for boys). 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 Wendy has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Wendy reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 96.5% percentile (ranked #28) with 6,059 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 6,538 births per million (ranked 95.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2004, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Wendy ranks #776 for girls (18.1% percentile) with 101 births per million, which is 1.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Wendy reached its peak popularity in 1970, achieving the 5.5% percentile (ranked #631) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1970, with 22 births per million (ranked 5.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2011.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wendy".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Wendy is pronounced as WEHN-dee, which has 2 syllables.
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