Glenda McGill was named for the letters that came during the war.
Her father was an air force man who had been shot down over Poland with his mate, Jack Evans. The pair were taken as prisoners of war.
Jack's sweetheart would write letters, keeping their spirits up, and when she learnt that the pair were together, she started addressing the letters to both of them.
"They got each other through it," Mrs McGill said. When she was born, there was only really one name in mind. "I was named after Glenda."
"Some of us are named for different reasons," Glenda Irwin said. "I was named after a famous opera singer from the '40s called Glenda Raymond. My dad was a fan."
She gestured to another of the gaggle of ladies, styled in pink around a table scattered with chocolates and champagne glasses.
"And I think Glenda Davison is a Glenda Raymond girl."
"My mum thought it was a name that wasn't as common," Glenda Briggs said. "It wasn't unknown, but it has become more unknown. A lot of us went to school not knowing a single other Glenda."
"I married a Raymond," Glenda Humphris, the group's unofficial founder, said. "Does that count?"
Nine, in total, had travelled from as far as Sydney to spend the afternoon on the harbour. Glendas all.
It was Mrs McGill's first time meeting the group that has been getting together two or three times a year since August 2018 when a group of about five originals met at Mrs Humphris' home in Sydney.
Officially, the Glenda Gaggle started in Albany, Western Australia, about 2006 as a social club for ladies who shared the name that peaked in popularity around the middle of the 20th century an unconventional choice and, despite the best efforts of the Gaggle to win over their sons and daughters as they consider the names of their children, has yet to stage a revival.
The Glendas of Newcastle, the Central Coast and Sydney are the first gaggle to form up in NSW, where their shared name reached the height of its popularity as the 50th most common girls name in 1952. There were 176 Glendas born that year, according to state records.
It fell out of the 100 most common names in 1961, with only 83 to be given the name that year.
To be Glenda is, according to those who wear it best, to be of a particular kind of spirit. When the chapter began meeting regularly, and grew from Mrs Humphris' living room to a patch that now includes Newcastle, they found most of their flock were of a feather.
Glendas, for one thing, have charisma. They're bright, witty, bold. They love a good laugh. They were probably a good student, too. As one of ladies noted at the weekend, when you have an unconventional name, the teachers tend to know who you are.
But, for the record, it is Glenda. Not Linda, or Brenda, or Glennis. Glinda the Good Witch is allowed an honorary mention, but she is an edge case.
"We're all good witches," Mrs Humphris said, with a wry smile.
To be Glenda is to sometimes see the world from the edges. Each of the ladies at the weekend remembered growing up with unique names surrounded by the popular and sometimes longing to be among them. Names have a way of circulating, but Glenda has a long orbit.
"It's old-fashioned," Glenda Watts, who is believed to be the second-youngest Glenda in the entire national gaggle.
"You weren't like all the others," Glenda Sladen said. "It was only a very small feeling."
To be Glenda is to not be a Jennifer or a Christine or an Elizabeth. Glendas find themselves in less populated waters. It is a name that you have to grow into, they say. It becomes you.
Glendas become teachers and pastors, lab technicians, government workers, hairdressers and carers. And when they find another of their kind, they have a way of sticking together.
As the ladies broke to order their lunch, Mrs McGill stepped down from her chair where Mrs Davison - one of the more petite of the group, found she was, by an inch or two, a little taller.
"Good things come in small packages," she said, embracing the newest Glenda to join the group, adding, "Called Glenda."
