Gwenda is a feminine given name of

Welsh Welsh may refer to: Related to Wales * Welsh, referring or related to Wales * Welsh language, a Brittonic Celtic language spoken in Wales * Welsh people People * Welsh (surname) * Sometimes used as a synonym for the ancient Britons (Celtic peopl ...

origin. It was apparently derived in the 19th century using the Welsh adjectives ''

gwen Gwen may refer to: * Gwen (given name), including a list of people with the name * ''Gwen, or the Book of Sand'', a 1985 animated film * Gwen (film), a 2018 horror film * Tropical Storm Gwen, several storms with the name Acronyms * AN/URC-117 Grou ...

'' "white, fair, blessed" and '' da'' "good", and may be a variant of

Gwendolen Gwendolen () is a feminine given name, in general use only since the 19th century. It has come to be the standard English form of Latin '' Guendoloena'', which was first used by Geoffrey of Monmouth as the name of a legendary British queen in h ...

(otherwise Gwendaline), or a feminine form of Gwyndaf, a Welsh saint.Mike Campbell
"Gwenda"
Behind the Name. Retrieved 2013-01-02. 'Gwenda' first appears in the UK General Register Office registration of births in the September 1874 Quarter, and for marriages in the June 1861 Quarter. It was "regularly used until the 1960s, now rare."

Notable people named Gwenda

Gwenda Blair Gwenda Linda Blair (born 1943) is an American author and journalist known for her biographies of Jessica Savitch, Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the family of Donald Trump. She is an adjunct associate professor at the Columbia University Graduate School ...

(born 1943), American nonfiction author *

Gwenda Bond Gwenda Bond (born July 12, 1976) is an American author of science fiction and fantasy, young adult, and romance novels. A novelist since 2012, she is also a member of the Clarion Workshop faculty for 2022, and has been a judge for the Bradbury P ...

(born 1976), American writer * Gwenda Deacon (1946–2006), American actress * Gwenda Evans, British costume designer * Gwenda Ewen, British actress *

Gwenda Hawkes Gwenda Mary Hawkes (' Glubb, previously Janson and Stewart; 1 June 1894 – 27 May 1990) was notable as an ambulance driver in World War I and later as a motor racing driver and speed record holder. Early life Gwenda Mary Glubb was born in 1 ...

(1894–1990), British racing driver * Gwenda Lorenzetti, Canadian actress *

Gwenda Morgan Gwenda Morgan (1 February 1908 – 1991) was a British wood engraver. She lived in the town of Petworth in West Sussex. Early life Morgan was born in Petworth, her father having moved there to work at the ironmongers, Austen & Co, of which he ...

(1908–1991), British artist * (born 1965), Welsh singer *

Gwenda Thomas Gwenda Thomas (born 22 January 1942 in Neath) is a Welsh Labour politician. Thomas was first elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 and re-elected in 2003, having almost doubled her majority. She is a fluent Welsh Welsh may refer ...

(born 1942), Welsh politician * Gwenda Wilson (1921–1977), British television and radio actress * Gwenda Young, Irish film scholar and author

Fictional characters

*Gwenda Halliday in the Agatha Christie novel ''

Sleeping Murder ''Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple's Last Case'' is a work of detective fiction by Agatha Christie and first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club in October 1976 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the same year. The UK edit ...

'' (1976) *Gwenda Vaughan in the Agatha Christie novel ''

Ordeal by Innocence ''Ordeal by Innocence'' is a work of detective fiction by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in the UK by the Collins Crime Club on 3 November 1958 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company the following year. The UK edition retailed ...

'' (1958)

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Notable people named Gwenda

Fictional characters

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