Gwendolynn
#4,212 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gwendolynn has been given to 1,454 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #4,212 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 41 recorded.
Babies named Gwendolynn, 2025
1 in 97,500
Gwendolynn 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Gwendolynn?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 97,500
- 34 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 47,300
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #4,212
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 67,586 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gwendolynn sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwendolynn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gwendolynns were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwendolynn was born before 1995 — so the typical Gwendolynn is around 30 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 19.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 46.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,316
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 19.9% of all recorded uses (290).
Is Gwendolynn 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
- +1,293
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −261
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +1,141
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.36×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 82.9%
- Peak was 2023 (41)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 35.1% average annual change
Spellings of Gwendolynn
Gwendolynn is not the most common spelling — Gwendolyn is, with 96.0% against Gwendolynn's 1.1%.
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 Gwendolynn is used
Across 1910–2025, Gwendolynn was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 660,422 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Indiana1 in —
- 3Missouri1 in —
- 4Texas1 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. Gwendolynn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gwendolynn around the world
Where Gwendolynn 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.
- France1996–2003#4,008in 2003
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Gwendolynn by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gwendolynn
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gwendolynn
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.