Definition of "Wanda"

"Speaking of names, you're the first white Wanda I ever met."Wanda peeled off two sweaters and a woolen scarf." Well, you're the fifth or sixth colored I've had to tell that Wanda is an old Polish name I inherited from my Polish great-grandmother on me sweet dead mother's side;

1998, Barbara Neely, Blanche Cleans Up, Penguin, published 1999, page 12