English
Wanda
Wanda comes from Old Polish Wanda.
- Old PolishmodernWanda
- Polishmodernsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 1998same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Old PolishmodernWanda
- Polishmodernsame form
- Englishearliest quotation 1998same form
Earliest quotation: 1998, Barbara Neely, Blanche Cleans Up: “Speaking of names, you're the first white Wanda I…”
The story
Borrowed from Polish Wanda, possibly derived from an ethnic term for “a Wend”.
Every English word from Old Polish Wanda
Today it means
name A female given name from Polish.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Old Polish Wanda / Wanda