Wende

Last seen for girls in 1990 at #12,958

Peak · girls
1967 · 139 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
1,377
since 1943

Wende over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Wende has never cracked the top 800 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201970peak #857, 1967girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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1990#12,9585
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1986#10,9125
1985#9,3076
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1982#4,71615
1981#10,4115
1980#4,14818
1979#5,09213
1978#6,9488
1977#3,48621
1976#2,48632
1975#3,15522
1974#2,34833
1973#2,12737
1972#1,85645
1971#1,52865
1970#1,49067
1969#1,46564
1968#1,45960
1967#857139
1966#1,18981
1965#1,46357
1964#1,83641
1963#2,17230
1962#1,94735
1961#1,95535
1960#1,52353
1959#1,98532
1958#1,93932
1957#2,12127
1956#1,69339
1955#1,55643
1954#1,80133
1953#1,58638
1952#1,74632
1951#2,06423
1950#2,65215
1949#1,76729
1948#2,82813
1947#4,0078
1946#3,6658
1945#3,6767
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First appearance
1943

The first year at least five girls were named Wende! It came in at #4,196, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1944, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Wende
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 1990
  • Biggest jump: 332 spots in 1967 (#1,189#857)
  • Biggest drop: 602 spots in 1968 (#857#1,459)
Rise & fade · girls
24 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1943
  • Peaked 1967 at #857 (139 births)
  • Births halved by 1968, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1967
Share of babies · girls
1 in 11,878
  • Highest: 1 in 11,878 girls born in 1967 were named Wende (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 379,709 girls born in 1990 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1960s
  • 43.2% of all girls named Wende (595) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s71#1,767 (1949)#3,357
1950s314#1,556 (1955)#1,914
1960s595#857 (1967)#1,587
1970s343#1,490 (1970)#3,052
1980s49#4,148 (1980)#7,899
1990s5#12,958 (1990)#12,958

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Wende in 1970

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#1,490
67 births · 1 in 26,092 girls

Top girls' names in 1970

  1. #1Jennifer46,150
  2. #2Lisa38,967
  3. #3Kimberly34,130
  4. #4Michelle34,047
  5. #5Amy25,212
  6. #6Angela24,929
  7. #7Melissa23,735
  8. #8Tammy19,587
  9. #9Mary19,204
  10. #10Tracy18,464
  11. #1,490Wende67
More about 1970

girls

1,748,144 girls got a published name in 1970; 1 in 26,092 of them was named Wende, which outranked 84.1% of the 9,355 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Wende
  1. #1,474Roseanna68
  2. #1,474Shawnee68
  3. #1,474Teresita68
  4. #1,490Wende67
  5. #1,490Aundrea67
  6. #1,490Fern67
  7. #1,490George67
  8. #1,505Annamaria66
  9. #1,505Doretha66
  10. #1,505Estelle66

Tied with 14 names at #1,490; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1969
Risers
  1. 1,541Tanisha#2,515#974
  2. 1,194India#1,955#761
  3. 695Shay#1,648#953
  4. 685Terra#1,303#618
  5. 669Dyan#1,648#979
Fallers
  1. 385Cinnamon#698#1,083
  2. 306Kaye#932#1,238
  3. 303Luanne#990#1,293
  4. 273Laureen#845#1,118
  5. 273Lesia#965#1,238

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1970