Winda

Locally spelled วนิดา in TH Thailand, Wanda in US United States and Wanida in NL Netherlands.

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.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Winda is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• English given name4 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Australia, United Kingdom

  Languages: English, Dutch

  Also written Windå

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Winda is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Kurdish, Mysterious, lost

  as a word·kurdi.sh Kurdish personal names dictionary

• In Polish, elevator, lift (permanent construction with a built-in platform or cab that can be raised and lowered, used to transport people and goods, as between different floors of a building)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In csb, elevator, lift (mechanical device for vertically transporting goods or people)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In English, Pronunciation spelling of window.

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In Swahili, to hunt (chase down prey)

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

• Winda Puji Hastutib. 1998IDbadminton player

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).

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.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

What does the name Winda mean, and where does it come from?

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How do you pronounce Winda?

A machine transcription gives /wˈinda/ (IPA) for Indonesian.

Is Winda a male or female name?

Winda is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).

In which country does Winda have the most bearers?

In the United States, the national register counted about 171 thousand people named Wanda, more than in any other country we hold.

How common is the name Winda?

In the Netherlands, the national register counted 14 people named Winda, about 1 in 1.2 million residents.

How common is Winda compared with other names?

In Thailand, Winda is the 39th most common given name of 488,147 given names recorded there.