Given name & surname · also German
Vendela
Vendela is a feminine given name from German, ultimately from Germanic. It is used in Swedish.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Vendela comes from German, and ultimately from Germanic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1993. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Vendela through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 64
- 0 boys · 64 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2011. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 9 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include a sample rank of No. 41,726 among surnames in 1990.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Vendela’s family of names
Vendela may belong to the same name family as VENDELLA. This is a tentative spelling connection.
The ring: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
People named Vendela
- Vendela Kirsebommodel and television hostborn 1967
- Vendela Zachrisson-SanténOlympic sailorborn 1978
- Vendela SkytteSwedish noble (1608-1629)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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