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Wendy
Pronounced /ˈwɛn.di/
Rank in 2024
#1,095
Born in 2024
224
Peak year
1967 · #32
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 224 girls were named Wendy, about 1 in every 7,202.
- It peaked in 1967 with 11,222 babies, ranked #32.
- It first shows up in the records in 1918.
- 262,161 girls have been named Wendy since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Wendy per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 2.4Boomers1946–64
- 5.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.9Millennials1981–96
- 0.5Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 37 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 3,154 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Boomers: 84,952 babies, 2.37 per 1,000. Gen X: 130,879 babies, 5.12 per 1,000. Millennials: 26,534 babies, 0.94 per 1,000. Gen Z: 13,526 babies, 0.47 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 3,079 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Popularized by the character in J. M. Barrie's play, Peter Pan (1904), though occasionally found earlier; the author explained that he got it from Fwendy-Wendy ("friend"), a nickname given to him by a child. Alternatively, from a diminutive of the Welsh Gwendolen; or from Wendelin, a diminutive of Wendel; therefore a doublet of Gwen. A habitational forename meaning, "island at the river bend", from Old English wende (“watercourse with a bend”) + ēġ (“island”).
- A female given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈwɛn.di/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Wendy, CC BY-SA 4.0.