Wanda
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in English: Teutonic/Slavonic; woman, wanderer, native
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/wɑndə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Wanda is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- SGSingapore≈1 in 1.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 1.3K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.6K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Wanda itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #677 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 508 (measured from records)
- 1 in 434 (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,100,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Poland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ונדה in PL Poland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Germanic; hypocoristic from wandalus ‘Vandal’.
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 11 languages in the etymology graph.
How Wanda is read(measured from records)
Wanda is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- English78%
Teutonic/Slavonic; woman, wanderer, native
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- Spanish5.6%
Germanic; hypocoristic from wandalus ‘Vandal’.
as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Wanda counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Wanda | 31 |
| US United States | #269 | 171,034 | 1 in 1.9K | 171K | Wanda | 508 |
| PL Poland | — | 88,112 | 1 in 434 | 88K | ונדה | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 63,373as Vanda | 1 in 3.3K | 77K | — | 5 |
| GB United Kingdom | #362 | ≈35,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | 4 | Wanda | 145 |
| CA Canada | #279 | ≈23,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.6K | 5 | Wanda | 193 |
| SG Singapore | #147 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Wanda | 19 |
| IE Ireland | #186 | ≈4,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Wanda | 25 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); the ca-statcan-baby-names register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Wanda is also recorded in 4 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 nameTên Họ Người Việt Nam
Teutonic/European: 'wanderer'
as a nameAfrican Names
In German, name of Slavic origin, used in German
as a nameDeutsche 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 nameDUDEN 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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- 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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 88 sources across 45 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 171K | #327 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 88K | #67 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 88K | #67 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 14K | #1,753 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 12K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 12K | #1,500 |
| PL Poland | Ministry of Digitalization — Imiona nadawane dzieciom w Polsce (2000–present) | 2025 | 654 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 209 | #327 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 60 | #1,500 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 39 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 20 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2021 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Wanda come from?
- Germanic; hypocoristic from wandalus ‘Vandal’. Recorded by Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios.
- 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 are other forms of the name Wanda?
- In the etymology graph, Vanda, Lawanda and Vonda are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Wanda?
- In the United States, the national register counted 171,034 people named Wanda in 2020, about 1 in 1.9 thousand residents.
- How common is Wanda compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Wanda is the 147th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- What does the name Wanda mean?
- In English, Teutonic/Slavonic; woman, wanderer, native
- In which country does Wanda have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.1 million people named Wanda in China, more than in any other country we hold, 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 China holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Wanda?
- A machine transcription gives /wɑndə/ (IPA) for English.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/wandaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Wanda” — the 147th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.