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in reply to a message by apace2
Your great-grandmother was from Wales, but she apparently did not have a Welsh name. Therefore the name could have come from almost any background. Her parents could have read it in a book or met someone from another country whose name was Arenda, or something else, who knows?
Arend is definitely a Dutch name; I know a family from South Africa via the Netherlands, who have a son named Arend, and the mother told me it meant "eagle." An online translation site confirms this. So it seems very logical that Arenda is a feminine form of this name.
I'm not sure what else you could be looking for. I'm sorry you have had trouble with people mispronouncing your name. This happens all the time with even apparently simple names that others are not familiar with.
Arend is definitely a Dutch name; I know a family from South Africa via the Netherlands, who have a son named Arend, and the mother told me it meant "eagle." An online translation site confirms this. So it seems very logical that Arenda is a feminine form of this name.
I'm not sure what else you could be looking for. I'm sorry you have had trouble with people mispronouncing your name. This happens all the time with even apparently simple names that others are not familiar with.
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