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Wanda is definitely not my style, but I can see its charm despite it, with V. I really really really don't like it pronounced W, it's just so... well gross imho. I don't know why, but that's how I feel about Wanda pronounced with a W. I know a lot of Wandas being Polish, of whom most are in their 70s I guess, I have also two distant relatives with this name, both are elderly ladies as well. And for a really long time I thought this is just so dated, elderly-sounding name, but recently I've known that one mummy (she's a name nerd), called her daughter Wanda. At first I thought "Oh, poor girl!", but after a while I actually realised that this name is really ready for a comeback, anyway here, I don't know how its situation looks anywhere else. And although I'm not a big fan of it as I said, I started to see that it's really charming in its own way.

Does she pronounce it Wanda or Vanda - a w or a v?

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The only one I've ever known was the daughter of a Polish father and a Scottish mother. She got the Polish name, pronounced with a V, and her brother got a Scottish one: Roderick.

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It reminds me of names I don't enjoy, like Wendy and Amanda. But I don't mind it at all, though I'd never use it because I've got no Polish connections. No idea what people in Poland think of it!

Meh.. Makes me immediately think of the Cartoon 'Fairly Odd Parents' TBH... Although I did just watch a Marvel movie with a character named Wanda. At the end of the day, it is definitely refreshing and miles more interesting than another Olivia or Sophia, just not my style.

Eeeeehhhh....it makes me think of a weird outcast girl. I like its variant, Vonda, much more.

I really like it! How refreshing!

I have an aunt named Wanda, born in 1962, and even at the time Wanda was kind of out of whatever fashion it had been in.
It's a fun, comical name, but I sure wouldn't want it for myself.