Throughout the world, ונדל (Wendell 
, ונדל 
) is a common male given name. The forename ונדל is habitual in Grenada, where it is quite a common boy's name, Trinidad and Tobago, where it is quite a rare masculine name, and the United States. Measured by absolute frequency, it is the most numerous in the United States, Brazil, and Philippines. Much less frequently, ונדל is the last name as well as the forename.
ונדל is also a name for the fictitious and mythical characters: Pleakley , the fictional extraterrestrial character from Disney's Lilo & Stitch franchise; Wendell Borton , the The Simpsons character; Wendell Tripplehorn , the character in The West Wing; Wendell , the Animal Crossing character, Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Wendell Pate , the character from 2009 film 'Hatching Pete', among other works.