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Brenda

April 13, 2024

For other uses, see Brenda (disambiguation).

Brenda is a feminine given name in the English language.

Brenda
Pronunciation/ˈbrɛndə/ BREN-də
GenderFemale
Language(s)English
Other names
See alsoBrendan

Origin edit

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.[1] 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.[2]

History edit

The British Isles edit

Occurring in the medieval legend of Madoc - the purported son of the 12th century historical Welsh ruler Owain Gwynedd by Brenda the daughter of a Viking overlord in Ireland[3] - the name Brenda was apparently until the 19th century confined to the Northern Isles being an evident remnant of the Northern Isles' Norse rule from 875 to 1470.[4] The name's utilization by Sir Walter Scott for the heroine of his 1821 novel The Pirate - set in Orkney - is credited with bringing the name Brenda into general usage throughout the British Isles [4] although the initial appearance of The Pirate generated no evident vogue for the name Brenda, and while the Late Victorian children's author Georgina Castle Smith, first published in 1873, made the name Brenda well-known via Castle Smith using Brenda as her mononymous pseudonym (as suggested by her mother for no known reason),[5] actual significant usage of the name in the British Isles is only in evidence from the early 20th century[6] with the name Brenda ranking for the first time as a top 100 name for newborn girls in England and Wales in the 1920s (e.g. #58 in 1924).[7]

The first evident celebrity to be named Brenda was "bright young thing" extraordinaire Brenda Dean Paul whose "party girl" career afforded her a high society press profile from the mid-1920s: she was a member of the same social circle as writer Evelyn Waugh who gave the first name Brenda to a "bright young thing" who was a major character in Waugh's 1934 novel A Handful of Dust, a rare example of the name Brenda occurring in highbrow literature.[8] From 1931 media attention on Brenda Dean Paul was focused on her substance addictions and legal woes: "in and out of rehab and court... she became a tabloid fixture that the public loved to hate."[9] However, the negative associations of such tabloid press headlines as "Brenda Jailed Again"[10] had no evident adverse effect on usage of the name Brenda in the British Isles of the 1930s, that decade affording the name Brenda its peak usage in England and Wales (e.g. #16 in 1934):[11] still popular in the 1940s (e.g. #22 in 1944) the name Brenda had in 1954 dropped to #52 on the tally of the 100 most popular girls names for newborns in England and Wales with the name being absent on the respective tallies by 1964. In 2013, the name Brenda according to the ONS was given to a total of six newborn girls in England in 2013.[12]

In Scotland, the name Brenda was first heavily used in the 1940s: ranked at #47 on the tally of the most popular names for newborn girls in Scotland for the year 1950,[13] the name Brenda remained popular in Scotland until the 1970s when its popularity took a steep drop: in 2014, 14 newborn girls in Scotland were registered as being named Brenda.[14] According to the CSO the name Brenda, which in 1964 had been #63 on the tally for names given newborn girls in Ireland, was not given to any newborn girls in Ireland in 2014.[15]

In 1971, the UK satirical magazine Private Eye ran a pseudo-item that Queen Elizabeth II "is known as Brenda to her immediate staff" resulting in the name Brenda being used in the media as an irreverent nickname for the Queen.[16] A cross-dressed impersonation of the Queen was a standard routine of comedian Stanley Baxter who never identified his character as a parody of the Queen instead calling "herself" the Duchess of Brenda.[17]

The United States edit

In the US, the name Brenda was first afforded a high-profile in the mid-1930s, as the press began [better source needed]charting the "career" of "celebutante" Brenda Frazier.[18][19]

Named for her mother, whose own father Frederick Williams-Taylor was the son of Irish emigrants to Canada,[20] Brenda Frazier had first been mentioned in the press as a pre-teen due to her parents' 1925–26 high-profile divorce and subsequent parental custody battle over Frazier, whose first name of Brenda, consequently, began appearing in the annual tally of the Top 1000 most popular names for newborn American girls from 1925, when it was ranked at #977.[21]

As Brenda Frazier's name began appearing in the society pages when she was a teenager in the mid-1930s, the name Brenda began rising in the yearly tallies for the top names given newborn American girls: ranked at #423 in the respective tally for the year 1937[21] the name Brenda was ranked at #241 on the respective tally for 1938,[21] the year of Frazier's coming-out ball, held following months of avid publicity. The full-force of Frazier's 27 December 1938 coming-out ball — which generated headlines fêting her as "the debutante of the century" — was evident when the name Brenda appeared for the first time among the Top 100 names for newborn American girls — at #86 — in the tally for the subsequent year 1939,[21] with the cachet with which Frazier imbued the name Brenda evidenced by two Hollywood movie studios conferring the name on their respective 1939 "discoveries": Brenda Joyce[22] and Brenda Marshall[23] (although neither actress would herself generate significant star-power).

It was also on account of Brenda Frazier that cartoonist Dale Messick utilized "Brenda" as the first name for the heroine of the comic strip Brenda Starr, Reporter which debuted 30 June 1940;[24] Messick would state in a 1986 interview that prior to Brenda Frazier becoming a society page staple "I had never heard the name Brenda".[25] Although Brenda Frazier's own vogue soon ebbed, the initial popularity she'd afforded the name Brenda was evidently reinforced by the success of Brenda Starr, Reporter: ranked as the #42 most popular name for American newborn girls as tallied for the year 1940, the name Brenda accrued favor so as to rank at #21 on the respective tally for 1948 with a subsequent 17-year tenure in the Top 20, with its strongest showing #11 on the tally for the year 1961[21] the year singer Brenda Lee had her career peak.

Last ranked in the Top 50 of the most popular names for American newborn girls in the tally for 1972 — at #44 — the name Brenda made its last Top 100 ranking to date — at #91 — on the respective tally for the year 1977.[21]

People named Brenda edit

Fictional characters edit

References edit

  1. ^ "Brandr – Nordic Names Wiki – Name Origin, Meaning and Statistics". Nordicnames.de. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  2. ^ Hanks, Patrick; Hardcastle, Kate; Hodges, Flavia (2006), A Dictionary of First Names, Oxford Paperback Reference (2nd ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 38, ISBN 978-0-19-861060-1
  3. ^ Traxel, William L. (2004). Footprints of the Welsh Indians: settlers in North America before 1492. NYC: Algora Publishing. ISBN 978-0-87586-300-9.
  4. ^ a b Scott, Walter (2001). David Hewitt (ed.). The Pirate: the Edinburgh edition of the Waverley Novels. Edinburgh UK: Edinburgh University Press. p. 504. ISBN 978-0-7486-0576-7.
  5. ^ Statton, Hesba; Brenda (2013). Jessica's First Prayer; Froggy's Little Brother. Basingstoke (Hants): Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-230-36054-9.
  6. ^ . Ukcensusonline.com. Archived from the original on 25 May 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  7. ^ . Britishbabynames.com. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  8. ^ Taylor, D.J. (2007). Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940. London: Chatto & Windus. ISBN 978-0-7011-7754-6.
  9. ^ Mic (14 March 2014). "The Origins of Bieber Fever Go All the Way Back to the 1920s". Mic.com. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  10. ^ [1] [dead link]
  11. ^ . Britishbabynames.com. Archived from the original on 29 May 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  12. ^ Henwood, Jo (19 August 2014). "PLAY: The name game – how many newborns share your name?". Chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  13. ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on November 29, 2015. Retrieved April 19, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  14. ^ . Scotlandspeople.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 21 November 2008. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  15. ^ "Irish Babies' Names 2014 – CSO – Central Statistics Office". 29 May 2015. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  16. ^ Doonan, Simon (2 June 2012). "Meet the Most Fashionable Woman in the World". Slate.com. Retrieved 8 June 2016 – via Slate.
  17. ^ "Where are they now? Comic actor and impressionist Stanley Baxter". Scotlandnow.dailyrecord.com. 13 March 2016. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  18. ^ "Babies Named for the Original Celebutante". Nancy.cc. 30 November 2011. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  19. ^ "Brenda". Behind the Name. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  20. ^ "Frederick Williams Taylor". Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  21. ^ a b c d e f OACT. . Ssa.gov. Archived from the original on 2 February 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  22. ^ The Ogden Standard-Examiner 24 September 24, 1939 p. 12
  23. ^ "Dietrich and Marshall Keep Glamor Alive (July 28, 1940)". Archives.chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 8 June 2016.
  24. ^ Davison Reynolds, Moira (2003). Comic Strip Artists in American Newspapers: 1945–1980. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Co. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-7864-1551-9.
  25. ^ "Full text of "Starlog Magazine Issue 111"". Archive.org. Retrieved 8 June 2016.

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For other uses see Brenda disambiguation Brenda is a feminine given name in the English language BrendaPronunciation ˈ b r ɛ n d e BREN deGenderFemaleLanguage s EnglishOther namesSee alsoBrendan Contents 1 Origin 2 History 2 1 The British Isles 2 2 The United States 3 People named Brenda 4 Fictional characters 5 ReferencesOrigin editThe 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 1 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 2 History editThe British Isles edit Occurring in the medieval legend of Madoc the purported son of the 12th century historical Welsh ruler Owain Gwynedd by Brenda the daughter of a Viking overlord in Ireland 3 the name Brenda was apparently until the 19th century confined to the Northern Isles being an evident remnant of the Northern Isles Norse rule from 875 to 1470 4 The name s utilization by Sir Walter Scott for the heroine of his 1821 novel The Pirate set in Orkney is credited with bringing the name Brenda into general usage throughout the British Isles 4 although the initial appearance of The Pirate generated no evident vogue for the name Brenda and while the Late Victorian children s author Georgina Castle Smith first published in 1873 made the name Brenda well known via Castle Smith using Brenda as her mononymous pseudonym as suggested by her mother for no known reason 5 actual significant usage of the name in the British Isles is only in evidence from the early 20th century 6 with the name Brenda ranking for the first time as a top 100 name for newborn girls in England and Wales in the 1920s e g 58 in 1924 7 The first evident celebrity to be named Brenda was bright young thing extraordinaire Brenda Dean Paul whose party girl career afforded her a high society press profile from the mid 1920s she was a member of the same social circle as writer Evelyn Waugh who gave the first name Brenda to a bright young thing who was a major character in Waugh s 1934 novel A Handful of Dust a rare example of the name Brenda occurring in highbrow literature 8 From 1931 media attention on Brenda Dean Paul was focused on her substance addictions and legal woes in and out of rehab and court she became a tabloid fixture that the public loved to hate 9 However the negative associations of such tabloid press headlines as Brenda Jailed Again 10 had no evident adverse effect on usage of the name Brenda in the British Isles of the 1930s that decade affording the name Brenda its peak usage in England and Wales e g 16 in 1934 11 still popular in the 1940s e g 22 in 1944 the name Brenda had in 1954 dropped to 52 on the tally of the 100 most popular girls names for newborns in England and Wales with the name being absent on the respective tallies by 1964 In 2013 the name Brenda according to the ONS was given to a total of six newborn girls in England in 2013 12 In Scotland the name Brenda was first heavily used in the 1940s ranked at 47 on the tally of the most popular names for newborn girls in Scotland for the year 1950 13 the name Brenda remained popular in Scotland until the 1970s when its popularity took a steep drop in 2014 14 newborn girls in Scotland were registered as being named Brenda 14 According to the CSO the name Brenda which in 1964 had been 63 on the tally for names given newborn girls in Ireland was not given to any newborn girls in Ireland in 2014 15 In 1971 the UK satirical magazine Private Eye ran a pseudo item that Queen Elizabeth II is known as Brenda to her immediate staff resulting in the name Brenda being used in the media as an irreverent nickname for the Queen 16 A cross dressed impersonation of the Queen was a standard routine of comedian Stanley Baxter who never identified his character as a parody of the Queen instead calling herself the Duchess of Brenda 17 The United States edit In the US the name Brenda was first afforded a high profile in the mid 1930s as the press began better source needed charting the career of celebutante Brenda Frazier 18 19 Named for her mother whose own father Frederick Williams Taylor was the son of Irish emigrants to Canada 20 Brenda Frazier had first been mentioned in the press as a pre teen due to her parents 1925 26 high profile divorce and subsequent parental custody battle over Frazier whose first name of Brenda consequently began appearing in the annual tally of the Top 1000 most popular names for newborn American girls from 1925 when it was ranked at 977 21 As Brenda Frazier s name began appearing in the society pages when she was a teenager in the mid 1930s the name Brenda began rising in the yearly tallies for the top names given newborn American girls ranked at 423 in the respective tally for the year 1937 21 the name Brenda was ranked at 241 on the respective tally for 1938 21 the year of Frazier s coming out ball held following months of avid publicity The full force of Frazier s 27 December 1938 coming out ball which generated headlines feting her as the debutante of the century was evident when the name Brenda appeared for the first time among the Top 100 names for newborn American girls at 86 in the tally for the subsequent year 1939 21 with the cachet with which Frazier imbued the name Brenda evidenced by two Hollywood movie studios conferring the name on their respective 1939 discoveries Brenda Joyce 22 and Brenda Marshall 23 although neither actress would herself generate significant star power It was also on account of Brenda Frazier that cartoonist Dale Messick utilized Brenda as the first name for the heroine of the comic strip Brenda Starr Reporter which debuted 30 June 1940 24 Messick would state in a 1986 interview that prior to Brenda Frazier becoming a society page staple I had never heard the name Brenda 25 Although Brenda Frazier s own vogue soon ebbed the initial popularity she d afforded the name Brenda was evidently reinforced by the success of Brenda Starr Reporter ranked as the 42 most popular name for American newborn girls as tallied for the year 1940 the name Brenda accrued favor so as to rank at 21 on the respective tally for 1948 with a subsequent 17 year tenure in the Top 20 with its strongest showing 11 on the tally for the year 1961 21 the year singer Brenda Lee had her career peak Last ranked in the Top 50 of the most popular names for American newborn girls in the tally for 1972 at 44 the name Brenda made its last Top 100 ranking to date at 91 on the respective tally for the year 1977 21 People named Brenda editBrenda the pen name of English writer Georgina Castle Smith 1845 1933 Brenda Archer born 1942 Guyanese high jumper Brenda Austin born 1981 Argentine politician Brenda Bailey Canadian politician Brenda C Barnes 1953 2017 American businesswoman Brenda Beenhakker born 1977 Dutch badminton player Brenda Bell 1891 1979 pioneer amateur radio operator from New Zealand Brenda Benet American actress Brenda Bennett American singer member of Vanity 6 and Appolonia 6 Brenda Blethyn British actress Brenda Sue Brown 1955 1966 American murder victim Brenda Bruce British actress Brenda Bufalino American tap dancer Brenda Buttner American newscaster Brenda Castillo Dominicano volleyball player Brenda Chapman American film director Brenda Cowling British actress Brenda Dacres British politician Brenda Davies wife of Robertson Davies Brenda de Banzie British actress Brenda Dean 1943 2018 British trade unionist and politician Brenda Dean Paul 1907 1959 British actress and socialite Brenda Dervin American Professor The Ohio State University Brenda Dickson American actress originated the role of Jill Foster on The Young and the Restless Brenda Lee Eager American R amp B singer Brenda Edwards British singer Brenda Eisler Canadian long jumper Brenda Evans American R amp B singer The Undisputed Truth Brenda Fajardo Filipina visual artist and printmaker Brenda Fassie South African pop singer Brenda Fisher 1927 2022 English swimmer Brenda Frazier American socialite Brenda Fricker Irish actress Brenda Gibbs Australian politician Brenda Hale Baroness Hale of Richmond first female Lord of Appeal in Ordinary Brenda Hiatt American novelist Brenda Holloway American R amp B singer Brenda Jones American R amp B singer The Jones Girls Brenda Jagger British novelist Brenda Joyce 1917 2009 American film actress Brenda Joyce American novelist Brenda Lee iconic American rock n roll singer Brenda Maddox American Briton biographer Brenda Major American psychologist Brenda Marshall American actress Brenda Matthews born 1949 New Zealand sprinter Brenda Muntemba 1970 2019 Zambian high commissioner to Kenya Brenda Navarro born 1982 Mexican writer Brenda Payton American R amp B singer Brenda amp the Tabulations Brenda Pye 1907 2005 British artist Brenda Reimer the name by which David Reimer was known until age 13 Brenda Robertson Canadian politician Brenda Romero American game designer Brenda Russell American singer songwriter Brenda Snipes American supervisor of elections in Florida Brenda Sue Schaefer murder victim Brenda Schultz McCarthy Dutch former tennis player Brenda Song born 1988 American actress and singer on the Disney Channel Brenda Ann Spencer American convicted murderer Brenda K Starr American freestyle singer Brenda Stauffer American field hockey player Brenda Strong born 1960 American actress and yoga instructor Brenda Ueland American writer Brenda Vaccaro Italian American actress Brenda Venus American actress writer and director Brenda Villa Mexican American polo player Brenda Weathers 1936 2005 American activist and writer Brenda Gail Webb the birth name of Crystal Gayle American singer Brenda Wootton Cornish folk singer Brenda Yeoh Singaporean academic and geographerFictional characters editBrenda a character in the 1987 American teen movie Adventures in Babysitting Brenda a character in the manga series Lady Brenda character from Perfect Hair Forever Brenda personal name of Rope Girl superhero character from the animated Disney show Teamo Supremo Brenda a character in the 1998 movie There s Something About Mary Brenda a character in Maze Runner The Scorch Trials played by Rosa Salazar Brenda character in Rotten Ralph played by Jaclyn Linetsky Brenda invented nickname of Queen Elizabeth II used by Private Eye Brenda Andes a character in the 1987 animated TV show Beverly Hills Teens Brenda Barrett character on the soap opera General Hospital Brenda Bates character in Urban Legend Brenda Blue a character from the musical TV series Jay Jay the Jet Plane Brenda Chenowith character in Six Feet Under Brenda from Loans a character from the 2020 Andrew Unger novel Once Removed Brenda Glover a character in the animated children s series Little Bill Brenda Jenkins character in the sitcom 227 Lady Brenda Last character in A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh Brenda Meeks character in the Scary Movie film series played by Regina Hall Brenda Morgenstern character in the sitcom Rhoda played by Julie Kavner Brenda Springer a poodle sportscaster from the 1980 animated television film Animalympics Brenda Starr a glamorous adventurous reporter featured in the comic strip Brenda Starr Reporter Brenda Troil character in Sir Walter Scott s novel The Pirate Brenda Walker Emmerdale Brenda Walker a character in the American sitcom television series The Hogan Family Brenda Walsh character in Beverly Hills 90210 played by Shannen Doherty Brenda Wyatt character in Highlander played by Roxanne HartReferences edit Brandr Nordic Names Wiki Name Origin Meaning and Statistics Nordicnames de Retrieved 8 June 2016 Hanks Patrick Hardcastle Kate Hodges Flavia 2006 A Dictionary of First Names Oxford Paperback Reference 2nd ed Oxford Oxford University Press p 38 ISBN 978 0 19 861060 1 Traxel William L 2004 Footprints of the Welsh Indians settlers in North America before 1492 NYC Algora Publishing ISBN 978 0 87586 300 9 a b Scott Walter 2001 David Hewitt ed The Pirate the Edinburgh edition of the Waverley Novels Edinburgh UK Edinburgh University Press p 504 ISBN 978 0 7486 0576 7 Statton Hesba Brenda 2013 Jessica s First Prayer Froggy s Little Brother Basingstoke Hants Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978 0 230 36054 9 UK Census Online Free Search Ukcensusonline com Archived from the original on 25 May 2016 Retrieved 8 June 2016 The Top 100 Names in England and Wales 1924 Britishbabynames com Archived from the original on 29 May 2016 Retrieved 8 June 2016 Taylor D J 2007 Bright Young People The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918 1940 London Chatto amp Windus ISBN 978 0 7011 7754 6 Mic 14 March 2014 The Origins of Bieber Fever Go All the Way Back to the 1920s Mic com Retrieved 8 June 2016 1 dead link The Top 100 Names in England and Wales 1934 Britishbabynames com Archived from the original on 29 May 2016 Retrieved 8 June 2016 Henwood Jo 19 August 2014 PLAY The name game how many newborns share your name Chesterchronicle co uk Retrieved 8 June 2016 Archived copy PDF Archived from the original PDF on November 29 2015 Retrieved April 19 2016 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint archived copy as title link ScotlandsPeople Scotlandspeople gov uk Archived from the original on 21 November 2008 Retrieved 8 June 2016 Irish Babies Names 2014 CSO Central Statistics Office 29 May 2015 Retrieved 8 June 2016 Doonan Simon 2 June 2012 Meet the Most Fashionable Woman in the World Slate com Retrieved 8 June 2016 via Slate Where are they now Comic actor and impressionist Stanley Baxter Scotlandnow dailyrecord com 13 March 2016 Retrieved 8 June 2016 Babies Named for the Original 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