Gwendol
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gwendol has been given to 17 babies in the U.S. since 1953. 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 1953, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Gwendol, 1968
1 in 676,000
Gwendol over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gwendol?
Gwendol had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1968, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1968
- 1 in 676,000
- 5 of 3,378,301 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1968
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 468,333 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gwendol sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1968 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 468,333 children born in 1968 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwendol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gwendols were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwendol was born before 1965 — so the typical Gwendol is around 60 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 64.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 17
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 64.7% of all recorded uses (11).
Is Gwendol 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1953 (6)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Gwendol
Gwendol is not the most common spelling — Gwendolyn is, with 97.5% against Gwendol's 0.01%.
Where Gwendol is used
Across 1910–2025, Gwendol was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 205,996 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in —
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. Gwendol has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gwendol by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gwendol
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gwendol
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.