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Gweneth

#7,254 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Gwyneth

Gweneth has been given to 1,318 babies in the U.S. since 1913. In 2025 it ranked #7,254 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 52 recorded.

Babies named Gweneth, 2025

1 in 221,000

Gweneth over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gweneth: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Gwyneth

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gweneth means

Gweneth is a variant of Gwyneth.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gweneth → Gwyneth → Gwyneth. The family’s proposed meaning is “white; fair”, recorded in Welsh with the source elements gwyn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gwyneth.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,318 girls were recorded with the name Gweneth between 1913 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 52 in 2008; its best national rank was #1,768 in 1941.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,938 in 2020 to #7,254 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,332 in 2015 to #7,254 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 Gweneth?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,254
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gweneth 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gweneth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gweneths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gweneth was born before 2002 — so the typical Gweneth is around 23 today.

Median birth year
2002
About 23 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
898
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Choose a decade

2000s — 25.5% of all recorded uses (336).

Is Gweneth 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
+3,305
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,316
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,922
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.45×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
28.8%
Peak was 2008 (52)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,768
1941

Spellings of Gweneth

Gweneth is not the most common spelling — Gwyneth is, with 51.9% against Gweneth's 10.3%.

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 Gweneth is used

Across 1910–2025, Gweneth was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 353,317 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Iowa1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Ohio1 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. Gweneth has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gweneth around the world

Where Gweneth 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
    2009–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2008–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1944–1961
    #665
    in 1961

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gweneth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,254
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,316
Best rank ever
#1,768
1941
Peak year
2008
52 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,318
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Gweneth

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

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Sibling names for Gweneth

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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