Wendy

A female given name, form of Gwendolyn.

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Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries.
The name is found in United States records from the 19th century; the name Wendy appeared over twenty times in the U.S. Census of 1880. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a name for both women and men in the 1881 census of England, and was occasionally used as a diminutive for the Welsh Gwendolyn. It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century. However, its existence in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelization Peter and Wendy by J. M. Barrie. Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s but subsequently declined. The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet 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 (originally Polish) name Wanda.
The name Wendy in Dutch is either of Anglo-Saxon origin or an abbreviation of names such as Wendela (an old-fashioned name which probably means related to the Vandals).
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).
In Germany, after 1986, the name Wendy became popular because it is the name of a magazine (targeted specifically at young girls) about horses and horse riding.

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As a woman's given name, apparently coined by James M. Barrie ("Peter and Wendy," 1911); it first registers on the U.S. Social Security list of popular baby names in 1936 and was in the top 40 names for girls born in the U.S. from 1965 to 1976

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Created from the nickname fwendy: friend.

Gwendolen, Wanda, Gwen, Winnie, Winny, Gwendolyn, Gwyn

Popularity	Name	Birth Year	Description
1	Wendy Melvoin	1964	American musician
2	Wendy Richard	1943	British actress
3	Wendy O. Williams	1949	Singer
4	Wendy Wilson	1969	American singer
5	Wendy Crewson	1956	Actress
6	Wendy Schaal	1954	American actress
7	Wendy Neuss	1954	American film producer
8	Wendy Carlos	1939	American composer and electronic musician
9	Wendy Raquel Robinson	1967	American actress
10	Wendy Shon	1994	South Korean singer, member of Korean girl group red Velvet
11	Wendy Craig	1934	British actress
12	Wendy Moniz	1969	American television actress
13	Wendy Makkena	1963	Actress
14	Wendy Darling
15	Wendy James	1966	English singer
16	Wendy Thomas	1961	American restaurant owner
17	Wendy Mesley	1957	Canadian television journalist
18	Wendy Hiller	1912	English film and stage actress
19	Wendy Walsh	1962	Psychotherapist
20	Wendy Sherman	1949	American diplomat
21	Wendy Robie	1953	American actress
22	Wendy Beckett	1930	British Catholic nun and presenter of documentaries for the BBC on the history of art
23	Wendy Hughes	1952	Australian actress
24	Wendy Schmidt	1955	Philanthropist
25	Wendy Benson	1971	Actress
26	Wendy Fitzwilliam	1972	Miss Universe 1998
27	Wendy Fulton	1959	American actresses
28	Wendy Kilbourne	1964	US actor and lawyer
29	Wendy Doniger	1940	American Indologist
30	Wendy Phillips	1952	American actress
31	Wendy Barrie	1912	English actress
32	Wendy Glenn		British actress
33	Wendy Liebman	1961	American comedian
34	Wendy Davis	1966	American actress
35	Wendy Wasserstein	1950	American playwright
36	Wendy Padbury	1947	British actress
37	Wendy E. Long	1960	Conservative American attorney
38	Wendy van Dijk	1971	Actress
39	Wendy Whiteley	1941	Australian artist
40	Wendy McElroy	1951	Canadian individualist anarchist and individualist feminist
41	Wendy Whelan	1967	American ballet dancer
42	Wendy Yoshimura	1943	American painter
43	Wendy Vera	1977
44	Wendy Hoopes	1972	American actress
45	Wendy Cope	1945	British writer
46	Wendy the Good Little Witch
47	Wendy Matthews	1960	Australian singer
48	Wendy Turner Webster	1967	British journalist
49	Wendy Kaufman	1958	American television personality
50	Wendy Kopp	1967	American nonprofit executive
51	Goldie and Wendy		Two fictional characters from Sin City
52	Wendy Alec	2000	Author and TV host
53	Wendy Rene	1947	American singer
54	Wendy Turnbull	1952	Australian tennis player
55	Wendy Piatt	1970	Director General of the Russell Group
56	Wendy González	1985	Mexican actress
57	Wendy Greuel	1961	American politician
58	Wendy Simms		Fictional character on the CBS crime drama
59	Wendy Hurrell	1982	British weather presenter
60	Wendy Valdez	1982	Filino actor
61	Wendy Ramos	1966
62	Wendy West		American television producer and writer
63	Wendy Haas		Musician
64	Wendy Morgan	1958	British actress
65	Wendy Harmer	1955	Australian comedian and writer
66	Wendy Pepper	1964	American fashion designer
67	Wendy B. Lawrence	1959	United States Navy Captain, former helicopter pilot, an engineer, and a former NASA astronaut. She was the first female graduate of the United States Naval Academy to fly into space
68	Wendy Alexander	1963	Former Scottish politician
69	Wendy Kaplan	1966	American actress
70	Wendy Finerman	1960	American film producer
71	Wendy Moten	1965	American musician
72	Wendy Calio	1977	American actress and singer
73	Wendy Mass	1967	American children's writer
74	Wendy Lou Holcombe	1963	American musician
75	Wendy Kingston	1981	Australian television presenter
76	Wendy Hall	1952	British computer scientist
77	Wendy Morton	1967	British politician
78	Wendy Powell	1971	American actress
79	Wendy Ewald	1951	American photographer
80	Wendy Lee Gramm	1945	American politician
81	Wendy Stapleton	1954	Australian singer
82	Wendy Venturini	1979	American motorsport announcer
83	Wendy Cooper
84	Wendy Whoppers	1970	American feature dancer and pornographic actress
85	Wendy Jo Smith		American rap-artist, singer and comedian
86	Wendy Mericle		Television writer and producer
87	Wendy Holdener	1993	Swiss alpine skier
88	Wendy Kaminer	1949	American lawyer
89	Wendy Petrie		New Zealand television presenter
90	Wendy Sulca	1996	Peruvian singer
91	Wendy Barlow	1960	Canadian tennis player
92	Wendy Riche		American television producer
93	Wendy Froud		American artist
94	Wendy Rae Fowler		American musician
95	Wendy van der Plank		English actress
96	Wendy Day	1962	American talent agent
97	Wendy Botha	1965	South African-Australian surfer
98	Wendy Bruce	1973	Gymnast
99	Wendy Dagworthy	1950	British fashion designer
100	Wendy Waldman
101	Wendy Diamond	1970	American magazine editor
102	Wendy Jane Walker	1964	English actress
103	Wendy Moore	1958	English historian
104	Wendy Lewis	1962	Contemporary Australian writer
105	Wendy Bagwell		Gospel singer
106	Wendy Saddington	1949	Australian singer, journalist
107	Wendy Orr	1953	Australian writer
108	Wendy Strehlow	1958	Australian actress
109	Wendy Kweh		Singaporean actress
110	Wendy Houvenaghel	1974	British racing cyclist
111	Wendy Chamberlin	1948	American diplomat
112	Wendy Guerra	1970	Cuban writer
113	Wendy Boglioli	1955	American swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, former world record-holder
114	Wendy Smith-Sly	1959	British athlete
115	Wendy Luhabe	1957	South African businessman
116	Wendy Sloboda	1960
117	Wendy Savage	1935	British gynaecologist
118	Wendy Freedman	1957	Astronomer
119	Wendy Seltzer		American academic
120	Wendy Selig-Prieb		American baseball player
121	Wendy Holden	1965	British novelist
122	Wendy J. Olson	1964	American lawyer
123	Wendy Stites	1949	Costume and production designer
124	Wendy Tan White	1970
125	Wendy Shalit	1975	American writer
126	Wendy Williams	1934	British actress
127	Wendy Wild	1956	American singer
128	Wendy Starland	1981	American singer, songwriter and music producer
129	Wendy Lesser	1952	American writer
130	Wendy Palmer	1974	American basketball player
131	Wendy Vásquez	1978
132	Wendy Robbins	1963	British journalist
133	Wendy M. Masiello	1958	United States general
134	Wendy Toms	1962	British football referee
135	Wendy Lloyd
136	Wendy Abrams	1965	American environmental activist
137	Wendy Rule		Australian singer
138	Wendy Millar	1944	Ulster Defence Association member
139	Wendy MacNaughton		American illustrator and graphic journalist.
140	Wendy Dascomb	1949	American model
141	Wendy Hoyte	1957	British sprinter
142	Wendy Sharpe	1960	Australian women artist
143	Wendy Russell Reves	1916	American philanthropist and model
144	Wendy Jacob	1958	American artist
145	Wendy MacLeod	1959	American playwright and professor
146	Wendy Beetlestone	1961	United States District Judge
147	Wendy Rose	1948	Anthropologist, poet, painter
148	Wendy Law-Yone	1947	Burmese writer
149	Wendy M. Grossman	1954	American journalist
150	Wendy Henry		British journalist and editor
151	Wendy Wyland	1964	American acrobatic diver
152	Wendy Larry	1955	American basketball coach
153	Wendy Wright		American activist
154	Wendy Jones	1978	Australian netball player
155	Wendy Lucero-Schayes	1963	American diver
156	Wendy Fraser	1963	British Field hockey player
157	Wendy Braga	1983	Mexican actor, television presenter and dancer
158	Wendy C. Ortiz	1973	American writer
159	Wendy Ward	1973	Professional golfer
160	Wendy Red Star	1981
161	Wendy Delorme	1979	French actor and choreographer
162	Wendy Babcock	1979	Sex Worker Activist
163	Wendy Toye	1917	Filmmaker
164	Wendy Blacklock	1932	Australian actress
165	Wendy Oldfield	1964	South African musician
166	Wendy Tilby	1960	Canadian film director
167	Wendy P. McCaw	1952	American newspaper publisher
168	Wendy Woo		American musician
169	Wendy Afiana	1992	Indonesian-English actress
170	Wendy Sue Swanson	1974	American pediatrician, educator and author
171	Wendy Schaetzel Lesko		American nonprofit executive
172	Wendy Maltz	1950	Sex therapist
173	Wendy Brouwer	1970	Dutch actor and television presenter
174	Wendy Bacon	1946	Australian academic and journalist
175	Wendy Curry	1966	American activist
176	Wendy Divine	1971	American pornographic actress
177	Wendy Warner		American musician
178	Wendy Berry Mendes		American psychologist
179	Wendy Coakley-Thompson	1966	American writer
180	Wendy Lindquist	1979	Canadian bodybuilder
181	Wendy Kesselman		American playwright
182	Wendy Dillinger	1974	American soccer player-coach
183	Wendy Playfair	1926	Australian actress
184	Wendy McMurdo	1962	British photographer
185	Wendy Davies	1942	British historian
186	Wendy Acosta	1989	Association footballer
187	Wendy Frew	1984	New Zealand netball player
188	Wendy Nazaré	1984	Belgian singer
189	Wendy Nanney	1965	American politician
190	Wendy Kimani	1986
191	Wendy Lands		Canadian singer
192	Wendy Weinberg	1958	American swimmer, Olympic bronze medalist
193	Wendy Duncan	1954	Australian politician
194	Wendy Bouchard	1980	Journalist
195	Wendy Priesnitz		Canadian politician
196	Wendy Jans	1983	Snooker player
197	Wendy Lill	1950	Canadian politician
198	Wendy Fonarow		American anthropologist
199	Wendy Austin		BBC journalist/broadcaster/BBC Northern Ireland/presenter:BBC Radio Ulster’s Talkback program
200	Wendy Machin	1958	Australian politician