Wendy


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 appears twenty times in the index to the U.S. Census of 1880, but that may be misleading. In Britain, Wendy appeared as a masculine name in a parish record in 1615. It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century. Its popularity 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, and 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".
Chinese women with the same or similar-sounding characters as their given names often anglicise their names as Wendi or Wendy.
In Germany after 1986 the name Wendy became popular because it is the name of a :de:Wendy |magazine about horses and horse riding.

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