Fernande Explained

Fernande
Gender:	Female
Language:	French
Variant Forms:	Fernand (masculine), Fernanda, Fernando, Ferdinand
Name Day:	27 June (France)^[1]
Derived:	From the Germanic elements faran ('to drive', 'to travel') and nanþi ('bold', 'daring')^[2]

Fernande is a predominantly French language feminine given name. It is the feminine form of the masculine given name Fernand. People bearing the name Fernande include:

• Fernande Albany (1889–1966), French actress
• Fernande Arendt (1891–19??), Belgian tennis player
• Fernande Baetens (1901–1977), Belgian jurist and feminist
• Fernande Barrey (1893–1960), French artist's model and painter
• Fernande Bayetto (1928–2015), French alpine skier
• Fernande Bochatay (born 1946), Swiss alpine skier
• Fernande Brosseau, Canadian social activist
• Fernande Caroen (1920–1998), Belgian freestyle swimmer
• Fernande Decruck (1896–1954), French composer
• Fernande R.V. Duffly (born 1949), Indonesian-American lawyer and jurist
• Fernande Giroux, Canadian actress and jazz singer
• Fernande Grudet (also known as Madame Claude; 1923–2015), French brothel keeper
• Fernande Keufgens (also known as Fernande Davis), Belgian World War II resistance member
• Fernande de Mertens (1850–1924), Belgian-French painter
• Fernande Olivier (1881–1966), French artist's model painter
• Fernande Sadler (1869–1949), French painter and engraver
• Fernande Saint-Martin (1927–2019), Canadian art critic, museologist, semiologist, visual arts theorist and writer
• Fernande Tassy (1903–1952), French fencer
• Fernande Tchétché (born 1988), Ivorian footballer

Notes and References

1. Web site: French Name Days. NameDayCalendar. 2019. 16 October 2020.
2. Book: Seibicke, Wilfried. Historisches Deutsches Vornamenbuch, Bd.1, A-E. 29 May 1996. De Gruyter. 978-3110144451. de.