Wendy

Wendy is an English name famously coined by the Scottish author J. M. Barrie for the character Wendy Darling in his 1904 play Peter Pan, inspired by a young friend who called him her "friendy-wendy." Some scholars have noted sporadic earlier uses of the name, but Barrie's work was overwhelmingly responsible for its widespread adoption in the twentieth century. The name has no ancient linguistic root of its own, functioning instead as a literary invention that entered common use. Wendi and Wende are occasional spelling variants.