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Wenceslao vs Wendy

American parents have registered 263,276 Wendys since 1880, against 332 Wenceslaos. Wendy is still ahead, with 165 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Wenceslao against Wendy, 1880 to 2025 0 3k 6k 9k 12k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Wenceslao Wendy

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 103 years in which either name was published, Wendy for 101 years and Wenceslao for 2 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Wenceslao Wendy
Total US births 332263,276
Most in one year 1311,259
Babies in 2025 under 5165
Estimated living today 290236,000
Median age today 3256
Peak year 20051967
Best rank 5,875th boys32nd girls
Rank in 2025 unranked1,341st
First recorded 19261918
Girls / boys 0 / 332262,325 / 951

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Wendys alive today are over 56; half the Wenceslaos are over 32. That is 24 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Wenceslao and Wendy.