Wen
Meaning
culture, refinement, literary elegance (文); increasingly used by Chinese American parents as a child's sole US given name rather than an English name, especially among Bay Area tech-immigrant families
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Wen has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
See popularity in Brazil
Popularity in Brazil
109 people · the #38,860 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 1,000,000 · median age 45
Among people named Wen living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1960s than in any other decade.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
The Wen deep dive
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