Wendy - name meaning, origin

The girl's name Wendy \

is pronounced WEN-dee. It is of English origin, and its meaning is "friend". Literary: a created name for the heroine in James Barrie's "Peter Pan". Ballerina Wendy Whelan; playwright Wendy Wasserstein; actress Dame Wendy Hiller.

Wendy has 9 variant forms: Wenda, Wendaline, Wendee, Wendeline, Wendey, Wendi, Wendie, Wendye and Windy.

For more information, see also related names Gwendolyn, Wendell, Guinevere and Wanda.

Baby names that sound like Wendy are Wandy, Andy, Jenda, Jandy and Wonda.

Wendy is a very common first name for women (#115 out of 4276) and a slightly less common last name for both men and women (#76244 out of 88799). (1990 U.S. Census)

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