Wendy

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)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Wendy".

1918 2023 19182023

Key Statistics

Total Births
261,936
Peak Births
11,224
Peak Year
1970
First Recorded
1918
Peak Percentile
96.5%
Current Percentile
18.1%
Peak Rank
#28
Current Rank
#776
Female statistics
Total Births
951
Peak Births
42
Peak Year
1970
First Recorded
1947
Peak Percentile
5.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#596
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Wendy

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Wendy. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Wendy is pronounced as WEHN-dee.

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Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Wendy. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Wendy, please vote using the thumbs up button.

WIH-nee (2 syllables)
6 names 26.6k births
W IH1 N IY0
wehn-dee (2 syllables)
5 names 18.1k births
W EH0 N D IY0

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like W EH1 N D IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.