Gwenda (given name)
Gwenda is a feminine given name of Welsh origin. It was apparently coined in the 20th century using the Welsh adjectives gwen "white, fair, blessed" and da "good", and may also be a variant of Gwendolen or a feminine form of Gwyndaf, a Welsh saint.[1][2]
The name was "regularly used until the 1960s, now rare."[3]
Notable people named Gwenda
- Gwenda Hawkes (1894–1990), British racing driver
- Gwenda Morgan (1908–1991), British artist
- Gwenda Owen (born 1965), Welsh singer
- Gwenda Thomas (born 1942), Welsh politician
Fictional characters
- Gwenda Halliday in the Agatha Christie novel Sleeping Murder (1976)
See also
- Glenda (given name) ("came rather later [than Gwenda] and may have been suggested by this name")[3]
- Gwen (given name)
- Wendy
References
- ↑ Mike Campbell: "Gwenda". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2013-01-02.
- ↑ "List of Welsh Forenames (A-M)". The “Cymru-Catalonia” (Wales-Catalonia) Website. 2006-11-27. Retrieved 2013-01-09.
- 1 2 Dunkling, Leslie; Gosling, William (1983), The Facts on File Dictionary of First Names, New York: Facts on File Publications, p. 111, ISBN 0-87196-274-8
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