Wendy

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Wendy is a Welsh feminine given name.

In Britain during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, a male Captain Wendy Oxford was identified by the Leveller John Lilburne as a spy reporting on his activities.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> It was also used as a surname in Britain from at least the 17th century.<ref name=Intestine>Template:Cite book</ref> Its popularity in Britain as a feminine name is owed to the character Wendy Darling from the 1904 play Peter Pan and its 1911 novelisation Peter and Wendy, both by J. M. Barrie.<ref>Was the name Wendy invented for the book Peter Pan? at The Straight Dope</ref><ref>Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges, Dictionary of First Names, 1990</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Its popularity reached a peak in the 1960s, and subsequently declined.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The name was inspired by young Margaret Henley, daughter of Barrie's poet friend W. E. Henley. Margaret reportedly used to call Barrie "my friendy", with the common childhood difficulty pronouncing Rs this came out as "my fwendy" and "my fwendy-wendy".<ref name="The History of Wendy">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Cwinn">Template:Cite book</ref>

In Germany after 1986, the name Wendy became popular because it is the name of a magazine (targeted specifically at young girls) about horses and horse riding.

People

Wendy Villamar, Flautist

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