Wendelin
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Feminine form of WENDEL
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/vɛndəliːn/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wendelin is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States.
- DEGermany
- USUnited States
- CHSwitzerland
Where the name is found, darker where our sources hold more of it. No national register counts its bearers anywhere we hold data, so the map carries no figures. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Feminine form of WENDEL.
Sources 1
- A concise dictionary of first names
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Recorded in:
No national register we accept counts this name’s bearers, so the page lists where it is found and publishes no figure.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wendelin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
German and Polish: from an old Germanic personal name, a derivative of the ethnic byname wend Wend (see WENDEL ). Variant: Polish: Wandelin. Cognate: Czech: Vendelín .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Wendelin of Trierb. 554IEGerman saint
- Wendelin Boeheimb. 1832ATAustrian military historian (1832–1900)
- Wendelin Weißheimerb. 1838DEcomposer (1838–1910)
- Wendelin Hinterkeuserb. 1851DEGerman architect (1851–1921)
- Wendelin Morgenthalerb. 1888DEGerman politician (1888-1963)
- Fabian Wendelin Bruskewitzb. 1935USCatholic bishop
- Wendelin Wiedekingb. 1952DEGerman businessman
- Wendelin Van Draanenb. 1965USAmerican writer
- Wendelin Wernerb. 1968DEMathematician and Fields Medallist
- Vendela Vidab. 1971USnot in their usual nameAmerican writer
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 40 sources across 20 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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 does the name Wendelin mean, and where does it come from?
- Feminine form of WENDEL. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names.
- What are other forms of the name Wendelin?
- In the etymology graph, Vendelín and Wandalin are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Wendelin?
- A machine transcription gives /vɛndəliːn/ (IPA) for German.
- Is Wendelin a male or female name?
- Wendelin is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Wendelin have the most bearers?
- Wendelin is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Wendelin?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wendelinThe 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, “Wendelin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.