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Also Portuguese (Brazilian): https://www.behindthename.com/name/wendel/top/brazil
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Wendel Pereira Santos, most known as Wendel, is a Brazilian defensive midfielder. He currently plays for Boa Esporte.
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Variant of WENDELL.
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Wendel Wilkie was the Republican candidate in the 1940 Presidential Election in which then incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for a third term. Wilkie was against American entry into World War II.
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Wendel L. Clark (born October 25, 1966) is a retired Canadian professional hockey player. He was chosen first overall in the 1985 NHL Entry Draft by the Toronto Maple Leafs, the team he played with on three separate occasions, captaining the team from 1991 to 1994.
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The tribe name Vandal did originally mean "wanderer", according to etymonline.com.
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The area occupied by the Wenden contains a typographical error. It should be "Oder" after the river, not "Ober" meaning "waiter." [noted -ed]
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The Swedish form is Vendel, but this is very unusual. The female form Vendela is more common.
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• https://nl.forvo.com/search/Wendel/nl/ (in Dutch)
• https://youtu.be/QBWTdVeiRww (in Dutch; the name is said at 0:07)
• https://youtu.be/pmN4TmLCoVk (in Dutch; the name is said at 0:07)
Converted to IPA, it should be: /'ʋɛn.dəl/
As you can see in the clips above, the name Wendel is also used on women: both as an independent name and as a short form of Wendelina and its variants (such as Wendelien, Wendelijn and Wendeline). As such, you might want to list Wendel as unisex in a future update. [noted -ed]