Wenda
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/wˈɛnda/(machine-generated) Indonesian · model-generated
Wenda is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Polish węda (“hook, fishing rod”), or from German Wende (a Slavic person from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub). Wenda is also written เวนิดา in Thai.
- CNChina≈1 in 32Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- GYGuyana1 in 58K
- NLNetherlands1 in 78K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wenda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 216 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈44,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
China, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Wenda in other scripts: Thai
(measured from records)Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
How to pronounce Wenda
- Indonesian:/wˈɛnda/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Spanish:/ˈwenda/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Polishwęda“hook“hook, fishing rod”(measured from records)
- GermanWendea Slavic person from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub(measured from records)
From Old Polish węda (“hook, fishing rod”), or from German Wende (a Slavic person from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub).
Cited for this meaning 1
Where in the world
(measured from records)Wenda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈44,000 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Wenda | 36 |
| BR Brazil | 2,512as Welida | 1 in 84K | 2.8K | — | 1 |
| US United States | 1,053 | 1 in 316K | 955 | Wenda | 216 |
| PH Philippines | ≈590 est. | ≈1 in 195K | — | Wenda | 18 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 191K | listed | Wenda | 69 |
| NL Netherlands | 222 | 1 in 78K | 217 | Wenda | 18 |
| HK Hong Kong | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 64K | — | Wenda | 10 |
| GY Guyana | 13 | 1 in 58K | 13 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the penguin-baby-names-2009 register; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Wendie Malickb. 1950USnot in their usual nameAmerican film, television and voice actress
- Wendy Phillipsb. 1952USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
- Wendy Brownb. 1955USnot in their usual nameAmerican political theorist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)37 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Wenda mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Polish węda (“hook, fishing rod”), or from German Wende (a Slavic person from the borders of Germany and Poland; a Sorb; a Kashub). Recorded by Wiktionary.
- What are other forms of the name Wenda?
- In the etymology graph, Wendy and Wendi are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wenda?
- It depends on the language: in Indonesian /wˈɛnda/; in Spanish /ˈwenda/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Wenda a male or female name?
- Wenda is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as female; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed as female; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- Which countries have the most people named Wenda?
- Mondonomo estimates about 44 thousand people named Wenda in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled wenda. After it come Brazil, United States, Philippines and United Kingdom; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Wenda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,053 people named Wenda in 2020, about 1 in 316 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Wenda?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wendaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wenda”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.