How rare is the name Wendi?

13,242 people in the United States have the first name Wendi, about 1 in 22,809. It ranks #2,051 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

WENDI

#2,051

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
13,242
About
1 in 22,809
This common or more
78.3%
Who bears it

Of the 13,242 people named Wendi, 83.9% reported their origin as White, 6.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.4% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.6%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Wendi peaked in 1970, when 844 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19432024
Peak year
1970
Births that year
844
In 2024
10 ▼99%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 14,522 babies have been given the name since 1943. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.

Wendi by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #689. The largest share of babies named Wendi, 64.5%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.

1940s#4,749112
1950s#1,733944
1960s#8184,502
1970s#6895,946
1980s#1,4531,963
1990s#3,899572
2000s#6,544372
2010s#18,15488
2020s#25,57523
Silent Generation 1928–450.1%
Baby boom 1946–6417%
Generation X 1965–8064.5%
Millennials 1981–9614.4%
Generation Z 1997–123.5%
2013 and later0.5%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Wendi is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Wendi has been most common in Utah (2.5×), Washington (1.8×), and Iowa (1.8×), and least common in Kentucky (0.5×).

12,017 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Wendi

#2,049 Lula · 13,248#2,050 Deja · 13,244#2,052 Hailee · 13,240#2,053 Kareem · 13,237

Spelled almost the same

4 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Wendi, most common first.

#208 Wendy · 257,751#7,420 Wendie · 2,060#9,884 Wende · 1,377#11,985 Wenda · 1,053

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