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Wendy
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Usage
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Swedish
Danish
Finnish
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Origin and Meaning
1) Variant form of Wendi [1] [2] [3]
2) Fantasy name invented by the author J. M. Barrie for the "little mother" in the play "Peter Pan" (1904). He took it from the nickname Fwendy-Wendy (= 'friend') [4] [1]
Related Names
See Wendi
Grammar
| - Danish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Wendy |
| Genitive: | Wendys |
| - Finnish |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Wendy |
| Genitive: | Wendyn |
| Partitive: | Wendyä |
| - Norwegian |
|
|---|---|
| Nominative: | Wendy |
| Genitive: | Wendys |
| - Swedish |
|---|
Further Information
Strongest Period of Usage
Statistics
Name Count per Country (What's this?)
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| Country | Commonness
Commonness | Total | Female ♀ | Male ♂ | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | as main name# | also middle name& | |
| Sweden[5] |
  |
265 | 361 | 265 | 361 | 0 | 0 |
| Denmark[6] |
 |
186 | n.a. |
184 | n.a. |
2 | n.a. |
| Finland[7] |
|
n.a. |
117 | n.a. |
117 | 0 | 0 |
 Iceland[8] |
  |
10 | 10 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| Norway[9] |
|
262 | n.a. |
262 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
 Greenland[10] |
  |
0 | 0 | n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
n.a. |
| #: count of main first name only | |||||||
| &: count of both main and additional first names | |||||||
| Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country. |
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No recent statistics trend found in databases for Wendy.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Wilfried Seibicke: Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch (Band 1-4)
- ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
- ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
- ↑ Digi- ja Väestötietovirasto, Digital and Population Data Services Agency, https://nimipalvelu.dvv.fi
- ↑ Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
- ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
- ↑ Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/