Wendel

At the 2020 census, 5,264 Americans bore the surname Wendel — 6,231st out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 56,800.

By the numbers

People: 5,264
Rank: 6,231st
How common: 1 in 56,800
Per 100,000: 1.8

Who bears the name

How people with the surname Wendel described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:

White, not Hispanic 93.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.8%
Hispanic or Latino 2.3%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.7%
Black, not Hispanic 0.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Wendel

Wendel (born 1982)Brazilian footballer
Joseph Wendel (1901–1960)German prelate; Roman Catholic Archbishop of Munich and Freising
Lara Wendel (born 1965)German actress
Elmarie Wendel (1928–2018)American actress and singer

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

Surnames like Wendel

Also a first name

Wendel has been given to 2,147 American babies as a first name since 1911, peaking in 1940. See it as a given name.

Try it on yourself

Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.