Entry № 11505 · English origin

Wendy Wendy — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ WEN-dee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Friend"
Syllables
2
First recorded
1904 (literary)

A name that means "friend".

Wendy is forever tied to Peter Pan: J. M.

For much of the twentieth century Wendy was a soft, sunny classic.

A friend — gentle and storybook-famous.

The name in its native script.

Wendy
Transliteration
Wendy
Pronunciation
/ ˈwɛn.di /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Wendy stands.

Wendy 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.

Wendys before her.

Real people
Wendy Williams
American TV host.
born 1964
Wendy Davis
American politician.
born 1963
In fiction
Wendy Darling
Heroine of Peter Pan.
1904 play

Names connected to Wendy.

The number behind Wendy.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Wendy reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.