Gwenda is a feminine
given name
A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and differentiates that person from the other members of a group (typically a f ...
of
Welsh origin. It was apparently derived in the 19th century using the Welsh adjectives ''
gwen'' "white, fair, blessed" and ''
da'' "good", and may be a variant of
Gwendolen (otherwise Gwendaline), or a feminine form of Gwyndaf, a Welsh saint.
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"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
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Gwenda Blair (born 1943), American nonfiction author
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Gwenda Bond (born 1976), American writer
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Gwenda Deacon (1946–2006), American actress
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Gwenda Evans, British costume designer
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Gwenda Ewen, British actress
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Gwenda Hawkes (1894–1990), British racing driver
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Gwenda Lorenzetti, Canadian actress
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Gwenda Morgan (1908–1991), British artist
* (born 1965), Welsh singer
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Gwenda Thomas
Gwenda Thomas (born 22 January 1942 in Neath) is a Welsh Labour politician who served as Member of the Welsh Assembly for Neath from the Assembly's start in 1999 to 2016. Thomas was first elected to the National Assembly for Wales in 1999 and r ...
(born 1942), Welsh politician
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Gwenda Wilson (1921–1977), British television and radio actress
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Gwenda Young Gwenda is a feminine given name of Welsh origin. It was apparently derived in the 19th century using the Welsh adjectives '' gwen'' "white, fair, blessed" and '' da'' "good", and may be a variant of Gwendolen (otherwise Gwendaline), or a feminine ...
, 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, 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 edition ...
'' (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 retai ...
'' (1958)
See also
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Glenda (given name)
Glenda () is a feminine given name.
People
Notable people with the name include:
* Glenda (musician), Glenda López Exposito (born 1988), Cuban singer, songwriter, and flute player
* Glenda Adams (1939–2007), Australian author
* Glenda Collin ...
("came rather later
han Gwendaand may have been suggested by this name")
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Gwen (given name)
Gwen is a Welsh feminine given name meaning "white, holy". It can also be a shortened form of '' Gwenhwyfar'' ( Guinevere) or other names beginning with the same element, such as:
* Gwenhael, Gwenael, Gwenvael, Gwenaelle
* Gwenda (explained as ...
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Wendy
Wendy is a given name generally given to girls in English-speaking countries.
In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activit ...
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Cyclone Gwenda
Severe Tropical Cyclone Gwenda is tied with Cyclone Inigo as the most intense Australian tropical cyclone on record (with the possible exception of Cyclone Mahina), with a barometric pressure of 900 hPa ( mbar) and was the most intense ...
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English feminine given names
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Welsh feminine given names