Wendi

Wendi is an English given name functioning as an alternate spelling of Wendy, itself generally traced to the invented literary use by J. M. Barrie in his 1904 play Peter Pan, where it arose from a childhood nickname based on the phrase "fwendy-wendy" meaning "friendly." Some scholars have also proposed a connection to the Welsh name Gwendolen or Gwendydd, rooted in the element gwen meaning white or blessed. The spelling variant Wendi follows a mid-twentieth-century American trend of replacing a final y with i in feminine names. Related forms include Wendy and Gwendolyn.