Wendi

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Wendy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 18 more and וונדי in IL Israel.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Wendi is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• a separate given name11K records spelled Wendi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China

  Also written Wen-Di

• Hungarian given name233 records spelled Wendi2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Canada

  Also written Wëndí

• Polish given name213 records spelled Wendi45 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

  Also written Wendy, Vendi, Венди, Венді, Wendie

42 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Wendi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In English, A female given name originating as a coinage.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In German, weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 79 years between 1943–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Wendi Murdochb. 1968CNChinese-American businesswoman (1968-)
• Wendi Petersb. 1968GBBritish actress
• Wendi McLendon-Coveyb. 1969USAmerican actress
• Wendi Hendersonb. 1971NZassociation football player
• Wendi Nixb. 1974USAmerican sports reporter
• Wendi Knightb. 1975USAmerican pornographic actress and director
• Wendi KenyaUSactress
• Wendi RoeNZNew Zealand veterinary pathologist and marine mammal researcher
• Wendi Rabiner HeinzelmanUSAmerican electrical engineer and computer scientist
• Wendi SargeantAUAustralian Uniting Church minister

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 257 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wendi?

We estimate roughly 309 thousand people bear Wendi (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.

In which country does Wendi have the most bearers?

Wendi is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled wendy.

How common is Wendi compared with other names?

In the United Kingdom, Wendi is the 106th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.

Is Wendi a male or female name?

Wendi is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Wendi mean?

Recorded meaning: Sui emperor whose response to Koguryo's attack led to heavy Chinese losses.