Vendela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Vendela (m.fl. former) är en femininform till det tyska Wendel, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Wendel- ’vandal’
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/vendela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Vendela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country.
- SESweden1 in 2.4K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 40K
- NONorway≈1 in 97K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Sweden (measured from records)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,314 people
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Vendela (m.fl. former) är en femininform till det tyska Wendel, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Wendel- ’vandal’. I Sverige har namnet blivit känt genom Wendela Hebbe (1808–99), en radikal journalist på Aftonbladet. I den rikssvenska almanackan 8 november. Formerna Vendla och Venla förekommer i den finlandssvenska almanackan 2 juni.
Sources 1
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Vendela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | #507 | 4,314 | 1 in 2.4K | 4.3K | Vendela | 62 |
| FI Finland | — | 140 | 1 in 40K | 163 | — | 2 |
| US United States | — | ≈74 est. | ≈1 in 4.5M | 5 | Vendela | 64 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 97K | 390 | Vendela | 12 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 5.1M | — | Vendela | 22 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | Vendela | 9 |
| IS Iceland | — | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | 1 |
4,314 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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: Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
- Vendela Skytteb. 1608SESwedish noble (1608-1629)
- Wendela Gustafva Sparreb. 1772SEnot in their usual nameSwedish artist (1772–1855)
- Vendela Emanuelssonb. 1848SESwedish translator
- Vendela Andersson-Sörensenb. 1860SESwedish opera singer
- Vendela Kirsebomb. 1967SEmodel and television host
- Vendela Santénb. 1978SEOlympic sailor
- Vendela Palmgrenb. 1994SESwedish female singer
- Vendela Lindblomb. 1995SESwedish Brazilian model
- Wiktoria Johanssonb. 1996SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and songwriter
- Vendela Persbeckb. 2003SESwedish association football player
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)
Attested in 13 sources across 9 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 4.3K | #676 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 2.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 2.4K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 2.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 2.3K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 2.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 2.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2014 | 2.2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2013 | 2.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2012 | 2.1K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2011 | 2K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2010 | 2K | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Vendela?
- In the etymology graph, Venla is a form of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Vendela?
- A machine transcription gives /vendela/ (IPA) for Swedish.
- Is Vendela a male or female name?
- Vendela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Vendela mean?
- Recorded meaning: Vendela (m.fl. former) är en femininform till det tyska Wendel, ursprungligen en smekform till namn på Wendel- ’vandal’.
- In which country does Vendela have the most bearers?
- In Sweden, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Vendela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled vendela.
- Where is Vendela most common?
- Vendela is densest in Sweden, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.4 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Vendela?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 4,314 people named Vendela, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Vendela compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Vendela is the 507th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Vendela?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/vendelaThe 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, “Vendela” — the 507th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.