Given name · also German
Wenche
“friend”
Wenche is a feminine given name from Middle Low German, ultimately from Dutch Low Saxon. It is used in Norwegian.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Wenche comes from Middle Low German, and ultimately from Dutch Low Saxon.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Wenche’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Wenche
- Wenche MyhreNorwegian singer and entertainerborn 1947
- Wenche LowzowNorwegian teacher and politician (1926–2016)
- Wenche Frogn SellægNorwegian politicianborn 1937
- Wenche Elizabeth ArntzenNorwegian Supreme Court Justiceborn 1959
- Wenche KloumanNorwegian actress (1918–2009)
- Wenche AndersenNorwegian television chefborn 1954
- Wenche Halvorsen StensrudNorwegian handball playerborn 1954
- Wenche KrossøyNorwegian writer1943–2010
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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