The name 'Kendra'

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 179362

> Ceridwen:
> I wondered the same thing.  The name "Kendra" falls almost in the 
> same category as "Tiffany" for me, a recent name that has taken off 
> in popularity since the 1970s.  In that light, I went to my 
bookshelf 
> and dragged out my beat-up copy of "What to Name Your Baby" by 
> Nurnberg and Rosenbloom, sixteenth edition, 1977.

Magpie:
Tiffany isn't actually a recent name. It's been around for hundreds 
of years and was originally given to girls born on the Epiphany. It's 
Greek.

I thought Kendra could easily exist at the time mentioned. Sometimes 
you find surprising names in the past, even ones that don't sound 
like standards. According to my dictionary Kendra appeared in the 40s 
in the US and the 60s in Great Britain, but I can easily believe that 
were people who had the name before it became popular. In my 
dictionary it says it's probably a combination of Kenneth and 
Alexandra.


-m