How Many People Are Named Wendi?
people named Wendi are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 25,542 people in the US has this name
Based on 14,522 babies named Wendi in Social Security records from 1943 to 2024, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎 Rare
Peak Year
844 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Variant of WENDY.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
Same Sound, Other Spellings
These names are pronounced like Wendi in English. Counting Wendi and these spellings together, about 249,031 people alive in the US have the name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Wendi in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Wendi alive today is about 52 years old, and 77% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 47 and 58 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Wendi first appears in the records in 1943 and was given most often in 1970, to 844 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2024.
Babies given the name each year, 1943 to 2024
🏆 Rank History
Wendi has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #317, in 1971.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #317 (1971) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #378 in the 1970s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Wendi alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Wendi were born in California than in any other state: about 1,668 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Wendi was given 2.7 times as often in Utah, 1.9 times in Washington and 1.8 times in Iowa.
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