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Guenevere

Girls' name

Variant of Guinevere

Guenevere has been given to 170 babies in the U.S. since 1969. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 14 recorded.

Babies named Guenevere, 2019

1 in 434,000

Guenevere over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Guenevere: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Guinevere

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Guenevere means

Guenevere is a variant of Guinevere.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Guenevere is used in Arthurian Cycle.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Guenevere → Guinevere. The family’s meaning is “white phantom”, recorded in the naming reference for Guinevere.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Guinevere.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 170 girls were recorded with the name Guenevere between 1969 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 14 in 1971; its best national rank was #4,178 in 1971.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Guenevere?

Guenevere had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 434,000
8 of 3,472,229 births
Among girls only
1 in 210,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
300,847 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Guenevere sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 300,847 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Guenevere. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gueneveres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Guenevere was born before 1998 — so the typical Guenevere is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
35.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
170
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 35.3% of all recorded uses (60).

Is Guenevere rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (14)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,178
1971

Spellings of Guenevere

Guenevere is not the most common spelling — Guinevere is, with 67.8% against Guenevere's 2.5%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Guenevere around the world

Where Guenevere ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    2006–2006
    #782
    in 2006

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Guenevere by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,178
1971
Peak year
1971
14 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
170
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Guenevere

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Guenevere

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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