How popular is the name Wendi?

Wendi ranks 1,029th among girls' names in US records, with 16,750 births since 1938. Over the past decade it accounts for 49.

Is Wendi a unisex name?

No. Wendi is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1970, when 940 children were given the name. It has been in use for 87 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Wendie, Wendye. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,029 of girl names

Pronounced W EH1 N D AY1 (ARPABET)

Wendi is a girls' name, and first appears in 1938. It has been given to 16,750 children — the 1,029th most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 49 births across the past decade, against a peak of 940 in a single year. That peak was in 1970.

Two other spellings are counted in that total — Wendie and Wendye — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Wendi and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Wendi?: Wendi ranks 1,029th among girls' names in US records, with 16,750 births since 1938. Over the past decade it accounts for 49.
Is Wendi a unisex name?: No. Wendi is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Wendi most popular?: 1970, when 940 children were given the name. It has been in use for 87 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Wendi spelled?: Wendie, Wendye. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.