Wendi
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Sui emperor whose response to Koguryo's attack led to heavy Chinese losses
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Wendi is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 72nd most common given name.
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 311as Wendy(inferred from the name graph)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 570as Wendy
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 596as Wendy
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 Wendi itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #377 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 584 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 311 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,700,000 named Wendy, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
El Salvador, est., as Wendy
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Wendy in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Sui emperor whose response to Koguryo's attack led to heavy Chinese losses.
Sources 1
- Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wendi 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 | — | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 825 | — | Wendy | 89 |
| US United States | #170 | 257,751as Wendy | 1 in 1.3K | 257K | Wendy | 584 |
| GB United Kingdom | #111 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | 49 | Wendy | 328 |
| CA Canada | #112 | ≈52,000 est. | ≈1 in 726 | 1 | Wendy | 309 |
| AU Australia | #101 | ≈45,000 est. | ≈1 in 570 | 94 | Wendy | 274 |
| SV El Salvador | #783 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 311 | — | Wendi | 16 |
| NZ New Zealand | #88 | ≈8,300 est. | ≈1 in 596 | 10 | Wendy | 146 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 8,041as Wendy | 1 in 634 | 8K | — | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | #72 | 215as Wendie | 1 in 80K | 20K | Wendy | 163 |
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; Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wendi is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name originating as a coinage.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In German, weibl. Vom., Schreibvariante von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
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)
- Wendi Murdochb. 1968CNChinese-American businesswoman (1968-)
- Wendi Petersb. 1968GBBritish actress
- Wendi McLendon-Coveyb. 1969USAmerican actress
- Wendi Hendersonb. 1971NZassociation football player
- Wendi Nixb. 1974USAmerican sports reporter
- Wendi Knightb. 1975USAmerican pornographic actress and director
- Wendi KenyaUSactress
- Wendi RoeNZNew Zealand veterinary pathologist and marine mammal researcher
- Wendi Rabiner HeinzelmanUSAmerican electrical engineer and computer scientist
- Wendi SargeantAUAustralian Uniting Church minister
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 42 sources across 25 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 13K | #2,051 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1970 | 844 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1971 | 839 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1969 | 732 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 707 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1972 | 706 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 666 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 642 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1973 | 636 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 59 | #2,051 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 45 | #9,002 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 35 | #14,428 |
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 does the name Wendi mean, and where does it come from?
- Sui emperor whose response to Koguryo's attack led to heavy Chinese losses. Recorded by Korea - A Historical and Cultural Dictionary.
- Is Wendi a male or female name?
- Wendi 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 are other forms of the name Wendi?
- In the etymology graph, Wendy and Wenda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Wendi have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.7 million people named Wendy in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Wendi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 257,751 people named Wendy in 2020, about 1 in 1.3 thousand residents.
- How common is Wendi compared with other names?
- In the Netherlands, Wendi is the 72nd most common given name of 101,916 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Wendi?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wendiThe 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, “Wendi” — the 72nd most common given name in Netherlands. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.