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Wendyl

Wendyl reached its high-water mark in 1934 at number 3,277, and has been recorded 11 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1944. About 3 Wendyls are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 81.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 3 5 8 10 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Wendyl

By the numbers

Total US births
11
Estimated living today
3
Median age today
81
Peak year
1934
Best rank
3,277th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1934

Where Wendyl is most common

Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.

Names of 1934

The most popular boys’ names the year Wendyl peaked:

All the names of 1934

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Wendyl against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.