Girl · Hungarian (19th-century literary coinage)
Tünde
Say it: TUEN-deh
Meaning
Coined by Mihály Vörösmarty for the fairy heroine of his play Csongor és Tünde (1830), from Hungarian tündér 'fairy'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Entered use as a given name after Vörösmarty's play and became common in the 20th century.
Its wave through time
Rare in the records
In the United States
- 6 babies given this name since 1988
- At its height in 1988, about 1 in 319,000 boys
- Fewer than 5 babies a year in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
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Where this comes from
- Well-known works of literature
- National birth statistics of European countries source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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