Wanda

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled ונדה in PL Poland, FR France, IL Israel and 1 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 9 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Wanda is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• Polish given name517K records spelled Wanda4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Poland, United States, Czechia, Slovakia

  Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

  Also written 'Wanda

• Portuguese given name460K records spelled Wanda5 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Argentina, Colombia

  Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

  Also written Wanďa, Wándá

• a separate given name118K records spelled Wanda2 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Italy

  Also written Wandā

• Indonesian given name20K records spelled Wanda4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Indonesia, United States, Malaysia, United Kingdom

  Languages: Indonesian, Malay

  Also written 'Wanda, Wanda'

74 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Wanda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Vietnamese, From Germanic and Slavic; meaning not given in the text; used for women.

  as a name·Tên Họ Người Việt Nam

• In English, Teutonic/Slavonic; woman, wanderer, native

  as a name·Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

• Teutonic/European: 'wanderer'

  as a name·African Names

• In German, name of Slavic origin, used in German

  as a name·Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

• In German, im 19. Jh. aus dem Polnischen über­ nommener weibl. Vom., dessen Bedeutung ungeklärt ist.

  as a name·DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Wanda Landowskab. 1879FRPolish-French harpsichordist (1879–1959)
• Wanda Wasilewskab. 1905PLPolish writer (1905-1964)
• Wanda Jakubowskab. 1907PLPolish film director (1907–1998)
• Wanda Wiłkomirskab. 1929PLPolish-Australian classical violinist and academic teacher (1929--2018)
• Wanda Venthamb. 1935GBEnglish actress
• Wanda Jacksonb. 1937USAmerican singer, songwriter, pianist and guitarist
• Wanda Błaszkiewicz-Rutkiewiczb. 1943PLPolish mountain climber (1943-1992)
• Wanda Vázquez Garcedb. 1960USPuerto Rican politician and attorney (born 1960)
• Wanda Sykesb. 1964USAmerican comedian, writer, actress and voice artist
• Wanda Perdelwitzb. 1984DEGerman actress (1984–2025)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 835 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Wanda?

We estimate roughly 333 thousand people bear Wanda (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.

In which country does Wanda have the most bearers?

We estimate about 171 thousand people bear Wanda in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled wanda.

Where is Wanda most common?

Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Wanda is densest in Poland — about 1 in 434 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.

How common is Wanda compared with other names?

In the United States, Wanda is the 263rd most common given name of 3,122,706 given names recorded there.

Is Wanda a male or female name?

Wanda is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Wanda mean?

Recorded meaning: Germanic; hypocoristic from wandalus ‘Vandal’.