Brenda
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Brenda is a feminine given name in the English language.
Key facts
- Given name2.name
- Brenda
- Given name2.gender
- Female
- Given name2.language
- English
- Given name2.seealso
- Brendan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- female given name
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- language of work or name
- Spanish
- different from
- Brenda
- native label
- Brenda
- writing system
- Latin script
- Soundex
- B653
- Cologne phonetics
- 1762
- Caverphone
- PRNT11
- Commons category
- Brenda (given name)
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Origin
- History
- The British Isles
- The United States
- People named Brenda
- Fictional characters
- References
Brenda is a feminine given name in the English language.
==Origin== The overall accepted origin for the female name Brenda is the Old Nordic male name Brandr meaning both torch and sword: evidently the male name Brandr took root in areas of the British Isles under Nordic dominance and through being heard as "Brenda" was eventually adopted as a female name. The name Brenda was probably influenced by the iconic Gaelic male name Brendan: although linguistically it is unlikely that the name Brendan would yield the name Brenda as its feminine form, the name Brenda is widely considered a feminine form of the name Brendan in Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
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