[name]Hi[/name], [name]Pam[/name] & [name]Linda[/name]. While responding to a posting on your discussion board, I noticed that your entry for the name “[name]Wendy[/name]” says that it was “famously coined.”
Actually, that’s a popular misconception that author J.M. [name]Barrie[/name] made up the name “[name]Wendy[/name],” although [name]Barrie[/name] did help to popularize the name for the first time.
The name [name]Wendy[/name], though rare, can be found in census records of the 1800s in both Great [name]Britain[/name] and the U.S., that pre-date the year (1904) that [name]Barrie[/name]'s [name]Peter[/name] [name]Pan[/name] was published.
You can see for yourself, by going to this genealogical site:
http://www.familysearch.org/eng/default.asp
Type in the name “[name]Wendy[/name] [name]Gram[/name]” and you’ll be taken to an 1880 census record for a [name]Wendy[/name] who was born in Ohio in the year 1828.
It seems to be generally accepted that [name]Wendy[/name] may have been derived from the Welsh [name]Gwendolen[/name] or [name]Gwendolyn[/name], or possibly from the Teutonic Wendla.
– [name]Nephele[/name]