Wendy

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Wendy is a given name, most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom. In Australia it is the 100th most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Modern English name, likely created from ‘Gwendolen’ or as a literary coinage.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 580◐
  • GBUnited Kingdom1 in 644
  • ECEcuador1 in 753

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈309K ●

across 8 countries

#686 ●

of 16M given names

5 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
532 ●

3.6M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 634 ◐

Costa Rica

Spellings & scripts●

WendyLatin · English●3.5M records
וונדיHebrew · Hebrew●1.4K records
เวนิดThai · Thai●28 records
ወንዲEthiopic · Amharic●7 records
웬디Hangul · Korean●0 records

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Wendi in FR France, BR Brazil, MX Mexico and 4 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●

Modern English name, likely created from ‘Gwendolen’ or as a literary coinage.

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Wendy is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
GB United Kingdom#106321,107271K rec.—3Wendy252
US United States#168257,1382.7M rec.1 in 1.3K257KWendy532
AU Australia#100199,808140K rec.—94Wendy257
CA Canada#13297,35492K rec.—1Wendy233
VE Venezuela#88225,035550 rec.——Wendy13
EC Ecuador#45622,458△514 rec.1 in 75322KWendy45
PH Philippines—19,01116K rec.——Wendy109
IT Italy#39917,70718K rec.—26Wendy82
ZA South Africa#16116,48417K rec.——Wendy137
FR France—13,660△637 rec.1 in 5K14KWendi59
DE Germany#88313,05512K rec.——Wendy131
CR Costa Rica—8,041△73 rec.1 in 6348K—8

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English3.5M69%
  • Spanish613K12%
  • 172K3%
  • French120K2%
  • Portuguese97K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English3,498,28869%
Spanish612,80112%
172,0963%
French120,1812%
Portuguese97,3212%

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◐

Wendy is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name970K records spelled Wendy48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Mexico, France, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Wëndy, Wëndÿ, Wêndy, W'Endy, Wéndy

  • Indonesian given name30K records spelled Wendy3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, Peru

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Wendy

  • Polish given name21K records spelled Wendy45 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Vendi, Wendi, Венди, Венді, Wendie

  • Hungarian given name6.3K records spelled Wendy4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Finland, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Wëndy

  • Turkish given name3.8K records spelled Wendy5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Türkiye

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Wëndy, Wëndÿ

74 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●

Wendy is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, English; name attributed to J. M. Barrie in the early 1900s for Peter Pan.

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  • In French, Issu de la littérature anglo-saxonne; popularisé par Peter Pan de James Barrie.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In French, Anglais, nom litteraire popularise au XIXe siecle; origine incertaine.

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Amichevole

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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●

05K10K15K19201940196019802000202011K · 1967

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Wendy in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1918–2025
Yearrecords
19185
19217
19239
192716
19285
19298
193017
19319
193211
193310
193410
193527
193667
193780
1938130
1939222
1940254
1941346
1942481
1943455
1944447
1945575
1946762
1947974
19481,517
19492,612
19503,030
19513,345
19523,556
19533,616
19544,415
19554,955
19564,861
19574,700
19584,485
19595,712
19606,870
19617,154
19626,977
19637,333
19648,076
196510,481
19669,516
196711,223
196810,709
196910,624
197011,100
197110,063
19728,529
19737,810
19747,564
19757,473
19766,464
19775,764
19784,918
19794,500
19804,141
19813,608
19822,820
19832,388
19842,024
19851,781
19861,517
19871,356
19881,292
19891,341
19901,397
19911,343
19921,269
19931,259
19941,131
19951,039
1996969
1997907
1998867
1999899
20001,004
20011,255
20021,209
20031,087
20041,039
2005901
2006930
2007864
2008688
2009600
2010498
2011419
2012359
2013395
2014359
2015288
2016328
2017230
2018273
2019222
2020196
2021196
2022192
2023176
2024225
2025165

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 102 years between 1918–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Wendy Hiller, b. 1912Wendy Barrie, b. 1912Wendy Carlos, b. 1939Wendy Sherman, b. 1949Wendie Malick, b. 1950Wendy Phillips, b. 1952Wendy Brown, b. 1955Wendy Crewson, b. 1956Wendy B. Lawrence, b. 1959Wendy Makkena, b. 1963

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●

Attested in 96 sources across 59 countries.

Official registers attesting Wendy
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020257K#208
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names202422K#95
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—20K#176
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202414K#523
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—8K#82
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20226.7K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—6.1K#2,241
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—3.6K#4,085
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,636
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1K#1,396
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020851—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—734#1,975

Reference works 3

  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,344 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wendy?
We estimate roughly 309 thousand people bear Wendy (counting its spellings and scripts) across 8 countries in our records.
In which country does Wendy have the most bearers?
Wendy is most frequently recorded in the United Kingdom, where it is most often spelled wendy.
How common is Wendy compared with other names?
In the United Kingdom, Wendy is the 106th most common given name of 369,273 given names recorded there.
Is Wendy a male or female name?
Wendy 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 Wendy mean?
Recorded meaning: Modern English name, likely created from ‘Gwendolen’ or as a literary coinage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wendy” — the 106th most common given name in United Kingdom. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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