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Baby name

Wendy

Girl

Origin of the name

Wendy was rare before J. M. Barrie, the author of Peter Pan, made it famous. He is said to have taken it from the nickname a little girl gave him.

Short-lived name

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The high point came in 1967, with 11,223 births and the No. 32 spot that year. Since then, the name has fallen 98%, to about 191 births a year. In 2025, it ranked No. 1341. 34% of all babies named Wendy since 1880 were born in the 1960s.
262,325births since 1880
1960sgeneration
No. 32rank at its peak, in 1967

Where babies named Wendy are born

1967

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The darker the blue, the more common Wendy is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.

Where it is most popular

Compared with the national average, Wendy is most common in Vermont (1.9 times), Hawaii (1.8) and Maine (1.6), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.

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