Wendy

Wendy
Wendy Darling drawn by Oliver Herford in The Peter Pan Alphabet
Gender	Female
Language(s)	English
Origin
Word/Name	Peter Pan
Other names
Alternative spelling	Wendi
Related names	Gwendolyn

Look up Wendy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Wendy is a given name generally given to females in English-speaking countries.

The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; Wendy Gram, a female resident of Ohio, was born in 1828, and the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a boy's name in the 1881 census of England, and was occasionally used as a nickname for the Welsh Gwendolyn. However, its popularity as a girl's name is attributed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie.^[1][2][3] The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's friend W. E. Henley. With the common childhood difficulty pronouncing Rs, Margaret reportedly used to call him 'my fwiendy-wendy'.

The name Wendy is sometimes considered a variation of the name Wanda.^[4]

Various Chinese rulers have held the name and title Emperor Wen, which in Chinese is read Wen(-)di (文帝). Chinese women with the same or similar-sounding characters as their given names often Anglicise their names as Wendi or Wendy (e.g. Wendi Deng, Wendy Kweh).

References

This name-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e