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Wednesday

Wednesday is a girl's name that peaked in 2023, when it was the 1,446th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 3,903rd. About 1,700 Wednesdays are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 10.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Wednesday

By the numbers

Total US births
1,704
Estimated living today
1,700
Median age today
10
Peak year
2023
Best rank
1,446th
Rank in 2025
3,903rd
First recorded
1965

How old the living Wednesdays are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,704 babies given the name since 1965, about 1,700 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,100 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2015 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Wednesdays

People named Wednesday with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Wednesday is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Wednesday is most concentrated in California (4.1×), Texas (3.3×), Florida (1.6×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2023

The most popular girls’ names the year Wednesday peaked:

All the names of 2023

Wednesday elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales girls Wednesday 116 1,863rd

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.