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How popular is “Wendi” in the USA?

Number of people named “Wendi” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Wendi” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Wendi” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Wendi” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Wendi” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Wendi” by birth year

This chart shows how “Wendi” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1943 7 0.00000248 7 100%
1944 6 0.00000223 6 100%
1945 6 0.000002262 6 100%
1946 18 0.000005633 18 100%
1947 13 0.000003609 13 100%
1948 21 0.000006083 21 100%
1949 41 0.000011765 41 100%
1950 42 0.000011988 42 100%
1951 47 0.000012759 47 100%
1952 64 0.000016851 64 100%
1953 68 0.000017646 68 100%
1954 80 0.000020097 80 100%
1955 89 0.000022166 89 100%
1956 119 0.000028862 119 100%
1957 141 0.000033554 141 100%
1958 140 0.000033866 140 100%
1959 154 0.000037037 154 100%
1960 243 0.0000585 243 100%
1961 253 0.000061077 253 100%
1962 252 0.000062448 252 100%
1963 305 0.000077055 305 100%
1964 386 0.00009929 386 100%
1965 458 0.000126329 458 100%
1966 500 0.000143858 500 100%
1967 666 0.000196177 666 100%
1968 707 0.00020927 707 100%
1969 732 0.000210628 732 100%
1970 844 0.000234021 844 100%
1971 839 0.000244439 839 100%
1972 706 0.000224627 706 100%
1973 636 0.000210813 636 100%
1974 642 0.000211184 642 100%
1975 563 0.000186461 563 100%
1976 475 0.000156544 475 100%
1977 458 0.000144184 458 100%
1978 409 0.000128865 409 100%
1979 374 0.000112414 374 100%
1980 353 0.000102482 353 100%
1981 329 0.000095104 329 100%
1982 291 0.000082954 291 100%
1983 204 0.000058903 204 100%
1984 165 0.000047295 165 100%
1985 174 0.000048752 174 100%
1986 122 0.000034298 122 100%
1987 101 0.000028012 101 100%
1988 114 0.000030852 114 100%
1989 110 0.000028613 110 100%
1990 97 0.000024542 97 100%
1991 87 0.000022335 87 100%
1992 80 0.000020826 80 100%
1993 72 0.000019097 72 100%
1994 54 0.000014525 54 100%
1995 45 0.000012288 45 100%
1996 39 0.000010693 39 100%
1997 22 0.000006068 22 100%
1998 44 0.000011962 44 100%
1999 32 0.000008663 32 100%
2000 38 0.000010053 38 100%
2001 49 0.00001309 49 100%
2002 42 0.000011235 42 100%
2003 42 0.000011046 42 100%
2004 46 0.000012039 46 100%
2005 35 0.000009103 35 100%
2006 42 0.000010616 42 100%
2007 34 0.000008505 34 100%
2008 26 0.000006615 26 100%
2009 18 0.000004712 18 100%
2010 15 0.000004059 15 100%
2011 8 0.000002187 8 100%
2012 15 0.000004101 15 100%
2013 15 0.000004114 15 100%
2014 9 0.000002428 9 100%
2015 6 0.000001621 6 100%
2016 8 0.000002181 8 100%
2018 6 0.000001707 6 100%
2019 6 0.000001729 6 100%
2020 7 0.000002095 7 100%
2021 6 0.000001771 6 100%
2024 10 0.000003004 10 100%

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