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Gwenn

Girls' name

White, through gwenn

Gwenn has been given to 1,502 babies in the U.S. since 1918. 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 1955, with 65 recorded.

Babies named Gwenn, 2022

1 in 677,000

Gwenn over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gwenn: meaning, origin, and history

White, through gwenn

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gwenn means

Gwenn belongs to the name family reached through Gwenn → gwenn. Its meaning is “white”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gwenn is used in Breton.

Gwenn comes through Old Breton gwenn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include gwyn and gwenn.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,502 girls were recorded with the name Gwenn between 1918 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 65 in 1955; its best national rank was #1,256 in 1955.

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 Gwenn?

Gwenn had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 328,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gwenn 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwenn. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gwenns were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwenn was born before 1957 — so the typical Gwenn is around 68 today.

Median birth year
1957
About 68 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
31.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,117
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Choose a decade

1950s — 31.0% of all recorded uses (465).

Is Gwenn 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 1955 (65)
Years since peak
70
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,256
1955

Spellings of Gwenn

Gwenn is not the most common spelling — Gwen is, with 32.7% against Gwenn's 1.5%.

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 Gwenn is used

Across 1910–2025, Gwenn was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 299,480 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Illinois1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5Minnesota1 in —
  6. 6New Jersey1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Gwenn has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gwenn around the world

Where Gwenn 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.

  • France
    1958–2024
    #2,160
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1948–1948
    #369
    in 1948

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gwenn by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,256
1955
Peak year
1955
65 that year
First recorded
1918
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
1,502
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gwenn

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

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Sibling names for Gwenn

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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