Wendelin
Recorded 1912–1976 · United States
Wendelin was most popular in 1954, when 30 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,144 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 559 people named Wendelin.
Wendelin over time
How old is the name Wendelin?
Wendelin first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1912, which makes it about 113 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 49 of the 114 years since. It was last recorded in 1976.
How many people are named Wendelin?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 559 American births named Wendelin between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 313 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Wendelin in 2025?
Wendelin was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Wendelin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Wendelin is a unisex name — 66.0% of the 559 Americans given it were girls and 34.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Wendelin?
Roughly 313 Americans named Wendelin are alive today — 56% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 69 years old, and half are between 61 and 73. That is a narrow band: Wendelin arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org