Wenda is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Wenda has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Wenda. That means that a girl named Wenda is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Wenda.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Wenda. Girls named Wenda have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,446 Wenda ranked higher than ever in 1949. By comparison, there have been 96 years in which the first name Wenda has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their daughters Wenda only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Wenda was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
It is not so easy to find a woman or girl named Wenda in the USA. Although the name is not sooooo rare overall, it is only at home in a few selected regions of the USA. In the entire United States there are currently a total of 68 women and girls named Wenda, but there are vast areas of the country where not a single person with this name can be found. In fact, the 68 women and girls named Wenda live in no more than 6 different states, including for example California, Illinois, Michigan, New York and Ohio. In all other 43 states, there are no – or, to be precise, less than a handful – women called Wenda. (To explain: The official statistics provide the data per state only if at least five women with a specific name live in the same state. So, it’s quite possible that there are one or two states where someone with the name Wenda lives although the name is not listed in the official statistics. Should you be one of those rare people whose name is Wenda and you live outside the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics.). The state with the most girls and women named Wenda relative to its female population is Pennsylvania. And even there, only one in 322,340 women and girls would raise her hand if you asked, who is called Wenda.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The W is really rare as a first letter for girls' names: only 0.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a W. The most common first letters of girls' names, by the way, are A, S and M, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of girls' names.
With five letters, the name Wenda is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 0.8% of all girls' names start with a W, all other letters occur on average five times as often as the W. Nevertheless, individual girls' names with W are quite popular, the most common currently being Wanda.
If your name is Wenda and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Wenda, you can simply say:
Windmill
Elephant
Nut
Dinosaur
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Wenda
Wenda
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
W
E
N
D
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
W
E
N
D
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Wenda sounds like this:
