BRENDA

Meaning

The excerpted source gives Brenda as a possible feminine form in Zetland/Sheland, and places it near the family of names tied to sword or strong-hero imagery. Because the OCR is noisy, the book does not give a clean, secure etymology for Brenda itself; the safest takeaway is a traditional name associated with strength and martial symbolism rather than a single fixed literal meaning.

Origin

Fun fact

In the excerpt, Brenda is mentioned alongside older sword-name forms like Brandolf and Brenhilda, which shows how nineteenth-century name books often grouped names by shared sound and imagery rather than strict derivation.