Wendell

Wendell is the 9,317th most common surname in the United States, shared by 3,353 people at the 2020 census. That is about one person in 89,100.

By the numbers

People: 3,353
Rank: 9,317th
How common: 1 in 89,100
Per 100,000: 1.1

Where the name comes from

Origin a patronymic

Short form of compound names beginning with the tribal name Wendel-, "a Wend".

Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Who bears the name

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

White, not Hispanic 90.6%
Hispanic or Latino 4.7%
Two or more races, not Hispanic 2.6%
Black, not Hispanic 1.4%
Asian or Pacific Islander, not Hispanic 0.5%
American Indian or Alaska Native, not Hispanic 0.3%

Notable people called Wendell

James Wendell (1890–1958)athletics competitor

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

Surnames like Wendell

Also a first name

Wendell has been given to 54,330 American babies as a first name since 1880, 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.