Given name & surname
Wende
“a wanderer”
Wende is used as a given name and a surname. One interpretation is “a wanderer.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One interpretation is “a wanderer.”
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1943. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Wende through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,377
- 0 boys · 1,377 girls
- Most popular year
- 1967
- 139 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 1990. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 139 in 1967. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,377 as a first name in 2020; 385 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Wende’s family of names
Wende has a related form in Wendall. Wende has a related form in Wendelin. Wende has a related form in Wendeline.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 12
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Wendallvariant
- Wendellavariant
- Wendelinevariant
- Wendelinvariant
- Wendtvariant · German
- Wendellyvariant
- Wendalinevariant
- Wendalinavariant
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Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wende
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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