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’
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 9 countries · latest register: Þjóðskrá Íslands, 2026
/vendela/(machine-generated) Swedish · model-generated
Vendela is a female 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
- ISIceland1 in 175K
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)
- Record sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.4K (inferred from the name graph)
4,314 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: 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.
Cited for this meaning 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 | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 4.8M | 5 | Vendela | 64 |
| NO Norway | — | ≈71 est. | ≈1 in 78K | 390 | Vendela | 12 |
| DK Denmark | — | 12 | 1 in 489K | 12 | Vendela | 9 |
| EE Estonia | — | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 432K | listed | — | 2 |
| 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); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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 Kirsebomb. 1967SEmodel and television host
- Vendela Santénb. 1978SEOlympic sailor
- Wiktoria Johanssonb. 1996SEnot in their usual nameSwedish singer and songwriter
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)13 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 9 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Vendela a male or female name?
- Vendela is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Norway (SSB) and Finland (DVV).
- 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?
- In Swedish /vendela/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- 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’.
- Which countries have the most people named Vendela?
- 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. After it come Finland, United States, Norway and Denmark; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-13.