Gwendolin
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gwendolin has been given to 79 babies in the U.S. since 1934. 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 1951, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Gwendolin, 1977
1 in 454,000
Gwendolin 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gwendolin?
Gwendolin had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1977, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1977
- 1 in 454,000
- 7 of 3,176,294 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 219,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1977
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 314,521 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gwendolin sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1977 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 314,521 children born in 1977 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwendolin. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gwendolins were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwendolin was born before 1966 — so the typical Gwendolin is around 59 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 40.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 67.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 64
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 40.5% of all recorded uses (32).
Is Gwendolin 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 1951 (11)
- Years since peak
- 74
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 11.9% average annual change
Spellings of Gwendolin
Gwendolin is not the most common spelling — Gwendolyn is, with 95.9% against Gwendolin's 0.06%.
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.
Gwendolin around the world
Where Gwendolin 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 Australia1953–1953#449in 1953
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gwendolin by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gwendolin
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gwendolin
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.