Wendell Boy Name

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The name Wendell is of German origin, and means wanderer. The table below indicates the number of times the name Wendell has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Wendell**
Use of the Name Wendell for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
51,115	21,853	3,707	159	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Wendell has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Wendell last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1995, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Wendell**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	903	6
1881	702	8
1882
1883	796	7
1884	608	11
1885	695	9
1886	574	12
1887	749	8
1888	481	17
1889
1890	628	11
1891	763	8
1892	421	21
1893	648	11
1894	418	21
1895	413	23
1896	499	18
1897	392	24
1898	416	23
1899	401	22
1900	418	30
1901	465	18
1902	317	38
1903	451	22
1904	359	32
1905	383	31
1906	329	40
1907	330	42
1908	271	63
1909	329	50
1910	300	69
1911	269	94
1912	242	211
1913	242	243
1914	227	350
1915	213	492
1916	214	515
1917	234	467
1918	232	518
1919	242	474
1920	232	545
1921	227	583
1922	219	604
1923	210	617
1924	215	630
1925	205	682
1926	214	642
1927	214	621
1928	206	660
1929	206	640
1930	203	670
1931	203	641
1932	198	648
1933	200	588
1934	199	616
1935	195	656
1936	197	626
1937	206	585
1938	214	576
1939	206	597
1940	114	1,619
1941	156	1,094
1942	189	837
1943	197	812
1944	210	690
1945	227	594
1946	253	606
1947	246	714
1948	247	677
1949	244	710
1950	217	850
1951	224	860
1952	225	879
1953	228	878
1954	226	956
1955	229	960
1956	230	1,006
1957	226	1,112
1958	220	1,189
1959	228	1,201
1960	239	1,142
1961	226	1,219
1962	233	1,094
1963	228	1,078
1964	242	1,012
1965	254	862
1966	276	717
1967	278	668
1968	303	610
1969	326	564
1970	348	538
1971	346	531
1972	378	433
1973	395	388
1974	436	329
1975	444	321
1976	466	284
1977	475	288
1978	445	319
1979	497	281
1980	472	317
1981	485	296
1982	487	303
1983	500	278
1984	536	257
1985	561	247
1986	582	233
1987	627	211
1988	614	238
1989	663	229
1990	680	222
1991	730	193
1992	764	187
1993	780	184
1994	873	153
1995	859	159
Totals:		51,115		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Wendell as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Wendell appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 114 times during the last 125 years.

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