Wendelyn · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Wendelyn.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1941

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Per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 36 recorded years as a table

Wendelyn, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1941	4
1947	5
1948	6
1949	5
1950	8
1951	7
1952	6
1953	5
1954	12
1955	5
1956	5
1957	4
1958	5
1959	4
1960	6
1961	6
1962	9
1963	7
1964	6
1965	6
1966	10
1967	10
1968	11
1969	8
1970	12
1971	6
1972	7
1973	8
1975	6
1976	6
1977	3
1978	3
1980	3
1982	6
1983	4
1986	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Wendelyn isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 1986: 5
Rank in 1986: #10,912
How rare: 1 in 343,109 girls
Since 1941: 397

Wendelyn was last recorded in 1986. Fewer than five girls have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1954, at 12 per million girls born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Wendelyn doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.