Wenonah · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Wenonah.

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 1903

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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 55 recorded years as a table

Wenonah, per million girls born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1903	19
1906	17
1909	17
1911	19
1912	18
1913	16
1914	20
1915	21
1916	25
1917	15
1918	12
1919	14
1920	11
1921	11
1922	8
1923	11
1924	11
1925	9
1926	8
1927	7
1928	11
1929	14
1930	10
1931	5
1933	6
1935	8
1936	8
1939	5
1940	5
1941	7
1942	4
1943	4
1946	3
1947	3
1952	3
1953	6
1954	6
1956	4
1957	2
1962	4
1965	3
1970	7
1971	4
1972	3
1973	5
1974	5
1975	5
1976	3
1977	4
1979	6
1980	5
1981	4
1985	3
1990	3
2017	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Wenonah 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 2017: 6
Rank in 2017: #14,124
How rare: 1 in 287,743 girls
Since 1903: 506

Wenonah was last recorded in 2017. 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 1916, at 25 per million girls born.

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

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