Gwenevere

#3,600 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Guinevere

Gwenevere has been given to 1,199 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #3,600 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2019, with 55 recorded.

Babies named Gwenevere, 2025

1 in 78,900

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gwenevere: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Guinevere

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gwenevere means

Gwenevere is a variant of Guinevere.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gwenevere → Guinevere. The family’s meaning is “white phantom”, recorded in the naming reference for Guinevere.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Guinevere.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,199 girls were recorded with the name Gwenevere between 1921 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 55 in 2019; its best national rank was #2,180 in 1962.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,464 in 2020 to #3,600 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,313 in 2015 to #3,600 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.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Gwenevere?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 78,900; 42 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 38,300; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #3,600; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 54,713 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Gwenevere 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 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwenevere. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gweneveres were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwenevere was born before 2012 — so the typical Gwenevere is around 13 today.

Median birth year: 2012; About 13 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 69.6%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,194; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (436).

Is Gwenevere 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; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: −136; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −287; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.86×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 76.4%; Peak was 2019 (55)
Years since peak: 6; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 17.1% average annual change
Best rank ever: #2,180; 1962

Spellings of Gwenevere

Gwenevere is not the most common spelling — Guinevere is, with 69.6% against Gwenevere's 18.2%.

Guinevere69.6%4,592
Gwenevere18.2%1,199
Gwenivere12.3%811

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 Gwenevere is used

Across 1910–2025, Gwenevere was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 770,741 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Alabama1 in —
2California1 in —
3Florida1 in —
4Massachusetts1 in —
5Mississippi1 in —
6New York1 in —
7Pennsylvania1 in —
8Texas1 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. Gwenevere has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gwenevere around the world

Where Gwenevere 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
2014–2025
#5,927
in 2025
Canada
2015–2021
#2,930
in 2021
South Australia
2009–2009
#818
in 2009

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.

Gwenevere by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #3,600
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 136
Best rank ever: #2,180; 1962
Peak year: 2019; 55 that year
First recorded: 1921
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,199
Count in 2025: 42

Names similar to Gwenevere

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

Sibling names for Gwenevere

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

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For a brother

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