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Gwenda

Girls' name

White, blessed + good

Gwenda has been given to 2,264 babies in the U.S. since 1921. 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 1952, with 109 recorded.

Babies named Gwenda, 2018

1 in 586,000

Gwenda 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gwenda: meaning, origin, and history

White, blessed + good

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gwenda means

Gwenda means “white, blessed + good”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gwenda is used in Welsh and English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɡwɛn.də/ for Gwenda.

Origin, language, and formation

Gwenda is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,264 girls were recorded with the name Gwenda between 1921 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 109 in 1952; its best national rank was #883 in 1952.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gwenda?

Gwenda had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gwenda 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwenda. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gwendas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwenda was born before 1954 — so the typical Gwenda is around 71 today.

Median birth year
1954
About 71 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
39.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.71%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,584
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1950s — 39.5% of all recorded uses (895).

Is Gwenda 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 1952 (109)
Years since peak
73
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#883
1952

Spellings of Gwenda

Gwenda is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 44.2% against Gwenda's 0.16%.

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.

Where Gwenda is used

Across 1910–2025, Gwenda was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 125,183 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 33,333
  2. 2Alabama1 in 50,000
  3. 3Mississippi1 in 50,000
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 50,000
  5. 5Texas1 in 50,000
  6. 6Georgia1 in 100,000
  7. 7Kansas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Louisiana1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gwenda has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gwenda around the world

Where Gwenda 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.

  • France
    1999–1999
    #4,075
    in 1999
  • South Australia
    1944–1977
    #437
    in 1977

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Gwenda

People whose public names include Gwenda, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gwenda 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
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Best rank ever
#883
1952
Peak year
1952
109 that year
First recorded
1921
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
2,264
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gwenda

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

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Names with a curve like Gwenda

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gwenda, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Gwenda

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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