Entry № 11464 · Polish origin

Wanda Wanda — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WAHN-dah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Polish
Meaning
"Wanderer; Slavic legend"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Polish)

A name that means "wanderer; slavic legend".

Wanda is a Polish legendary queen — the daughter of Krakus, the legendary founder of Kraków.

Wanda was popular in 20th-century America (peaked at #143 in 1934) but has declined. The Marvel character Wanda Maximoff (Scarlet Witch) has revived interest.

The Polish legendary queen. Marvel's Scarlet Witch.

The name in its native script.

Wanda
Transliteration
Wanda
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɑːn.də /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wanda stands.

Wanda does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Wandas before her.

Real people
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Polish mountaineer, first European woman to summit Everest.
1943 – 1992
In fiction
Wanda Maximoff
Marvel's Scarlet Witch.
Marvel Comics, 1964 onward

Names connected to Wanda.

The number behind Wanda.

7

The Seeker

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wanda reduce to 7, The Seeker. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.