Vanda

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Vanda is also commonly used in Georgia.

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In Georgian, the name is written as: ვანდა

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Sources:
• https://kids.ge/baby-name?id=1796 (in Georgian)
• https://web.archive.org/web/20130130192114/http://name.interes.ge/dreams.php?action=view&id=380&from=action=search%7Cby=ვ (in Georgian)
• see the entry for Vanda: http://geogen.ge/ge/wsearch/4309/ (in Georgian)
• https://ge.linkedin.com/pub/dir/Vanda/+/ge-0-Georgi%C3%AB (lists only bearers living in Georgia)
• Vanda Shiukashvili (1905-2001): https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/ვანდა_შიუკაშვილი (in Georgian)

Independent of the Slavic and Baltic usage of the name provided, Vanda also refers to a genus of orchid. In that instance, the etymology is Sanskrit.

Vanda Lane is a character in Christianna Brand's mystery novel "Tour de Force".

Vanda is also Estonian. The name day for Vanda in Estonia is April 24.

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Sources: https://forebears.io/forenames/vanda

Also Slovene: https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanda

Also Galician: http://www.ige.eu/igebdt/esq.jsp?idioma=gl&ruta=onomast/nomes.jsp
https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_de_nomes_femininos_en_galego#H

Also used in Estonia: https://www.stat.ee/public/apps/nimed/

Also Latvian: https://www.pmlp.gov.lv/lv/sakums/statistika/personvardu-datu-baze/?id=137&query=Vanda.

Also used in Hungary. Pronounced: VAWN-daw. [noted -ed]

Also used in Slovak. The name is quite popular nowadays. [noted -ed]

A famous bearer of this name was the English actress Vanda Godsell (17 November 1922 – 11 April 1990). :)

Used in Lithuanian.

It is possible that the name has a Baltic origin and is made of the word 'vanduo' (Lithuanian - water).

A Polish person would claim this name to be Polish. But actually in my native language which is Lithuanian, Vanda was a goddess of water - vanduo. Not many people know this. English dictionaries usually point out that this name could be of Slavic origin. It is not true as Lithuanian is a Baltic language.