Gwendoline

#11,273 in 2025Girls' name

White, fair, blessed + ring, bow, hair, brow, through Gwendolen

Gwendoline has been given to 358 babies in the U.S. since 1893. In 2025 it ranked #11,273 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1924, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Gwendoline, 2025

1 in 414,000

Gwendoline over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gwendoline: meaning, origin, and history

White, fair, blessed + ring, bow, hair, brow, through Gwendolen

Welsh

What Gwendoline means

Gwendoline belongs to the name family reached through Gwendoline → Gwendolen. Its meaning is “white, fair, blessed + ring, bow, hair, brow”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gwendoline is used in English and French. Its origins include Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gwendolen.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Gwendoline is pronounced /ɡwɛn.dɔ.lin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 358 girls were recorded with the name Gwendoline between 1893 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1924; its best national rank was #1,251 in 1903.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,614 in 2020 to #11,273 in 2025.

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 Gwendoline?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 414,000; 8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 201,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #11,273; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 287,238 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gwendoline 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwendoline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gwendolines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwendoline was born before 1955 — so the typical Gwendoline is around 70 today.

Median birth year: 1955; About 70 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 19.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 29.3%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 192; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 19.8% of all recorded uses (71).

Is Gwendoline 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: −1,469; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: +1,341; Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 61.5%; Peak was 1924 (13)
Years since peak: 101; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 24.0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,251; 1903

Spellings of Gwendoline

Gwendoline is not the most common spelling — Gwendolyn is, with 97.9% against Gwendoline's 0.28%.

Gwendolyn97.9%124,385
Gwendolynn1.1%1,454
Gwendolen0.70%889
Gwendoline0.28%358

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.

Gwendoline around the world

Where Gwendoline 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.

England & Wales
1996–2025
#2,788
in 2025
Scotland
1974–1980
#481
in 1980
Ireland
1964–1985
#519
in 1985
France
1953–2025
#3,302
in 2025
Canada
2009–2023
#3,391
in 2023
South Australia
1944–2013
#818
in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Gwendoline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #11,273
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Up 1,341
Best rank ever: #1,251; 1903
Peak year: 1924; 13 that year
First recorded: 1893
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 358
Count in 2025: 8

Names similar to Gwendoline

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

Sibling names for Gwendoline

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

For a sister

Kattie Adell Berta Allene Idella Ima Concepcion Jannie

For a brother

Eldridge Delmer Frances Trinidad Lenard Dewitt Jewel Buford

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