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Wendell
Rank in 2024
#2,052
Born in 2024
73
Peak year
1940 · #114
Origin
Germanic
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 73 boys were named Wendell, about 1 in every 23,497.
- It peaked in 1940 with 1,625 babies, ranked #114.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 53,696 boys have been named Wendell since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Wendell per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.5Greatest1901–27
- 0.6Silent1928–45
- 0.5Boomers1946–64
- 0.3Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 8,696 babies, 0.52 per 1,000. Silent: 13,175 babies, 0.64 per 1,000. Boomers: 18,169 babies, 0.48 per 1,000. Gen X: 7,452 babies, 0.27 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,519 babies, 0.12 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,424 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 966 babies, 0.04 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Short form of Germanic compound names beginning with the tribal name Wendel-, "a Wend".
- A male given name from the Germanic languages transferred back from the surname.
- Origin
- Germanic
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Wendell, CC BY-SA 4.0.