Entry № 11495 · English origin

Wednesday Wednesday — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WENZ-day /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Wōden's day (Wednesday Addams, Charles Addams + Netflix)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "wōden's day (wednesday addams, charles addams + netflix)".

Wednesday is from the Old English Wōdnesdæg — "Wōden's (Odin's) day," the fourth day of the week named for the Norse-Germanic chief god.

Wōden's day. Wednesday's child is full of woe — and 1.7 billion Netflix hours in 28 days.

The name in its native script.

Wednesday
Transliteration
Wednesday
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɛnz.deɪ /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wednesday stands.

Wednesday does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Wednesdays before her.

Real people
Wednesday Martin
American sociologist.
born 1965
In fiction
Wednesday Addams
Charles Addams's The Addams Family.
1938

Names connected to Wednesday.

The number behind Wednesday.

1

The Leader

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wednesday reduce to 1, The Leader. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.