Wanda f
English: of uncertain origin. Attempts have been made to derive it from various Germanic and Slavonic roots: it was certainly in use in Poland in the 19th century, and is found in Polish folk-tales as the name of a princess. The derivation may well be from the ethnic term Wend, denoting the Slavonic people who inhabited what is now northern East Germany in the Middle Ages. The name was introduced to the English-speaking world by Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramée), who used it for the heroine of her novel Wanda (1883).
First names dictionary. 2012.