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Gwyneth

#1,771 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly white; fair, through Gwyneth

Gwyneth has been given to 6,657 babies in the U.S. since 1915. In 2025 it ranked #1,771 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2013, with 288 recorded.

Babies named Gwyneth, 2025

1 in 29,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gwyneth: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly white; fair, through Gwyneth

Welsh

What Gwyneth means

Gwyneth belongs to the name family reached through Gwyneth → Gwyneth. Its meaning is “white; fair”.

Origin, language, and formation

Gwyneth is used in English and Welsh. Its origins include Welsh.

Gwyneth comes through Welsh Gwyneth.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Gwyneth.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Gwyneth is pronounced /ˈɡwɪnəθ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,657 girls were recorded with the name Gwyneth between 1915 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 288 in 2013; its best national rank was #892 in 2013.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,442 in 2020 to #1,771 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,096 in 2015 to #1,771 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 Gwyneth?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 29,100
114 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 14,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,771
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
20,158 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gwyneth 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 5002%

Put another way: gather 20,158 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gwyneth. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gwyneths were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gwyneth was born before 2007 — so the typical Gwyneth is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
32.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
73.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,268
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 32.2% of all recorded uses (2,145).

Is Gwyneth 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
+12
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−329
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−675
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.48×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
39.6%
Peak was 2013 (288)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
11.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#892
2013

Spellings of Gwyneth

Gwyneth is the most-used spelling, taking 59.2% of the 11,243 babies given a near-identical spelling.

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 Gwyneth is used

Across 2016–2025, Gwyneth was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 12,465 across all states with data. It was least common in Minnesota (1 in 50,000).

215 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Ohio1 in 6,667
  2. 2Colorado1 in 7,143
  3. 3Utah1 in 7,692
  4. 4Missouri1 in 8,333
  5. 5California1 in 9,091
  6. 6Virginia1 in 9,091
  7. 7Indiana1 in 10,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 11,111

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.

Gwyneth around the world

Where Gwyneth 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
    1979–1979
    #535
    in 1979
  • Ireland
    1971–2009
    #893
    in 2009
  • Canada
    1993–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1944–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, 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. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Gwyneth

People whose public names include Gwyneth, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Gwyneth in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Gwyneth. Linked forms have their own page here.

GwenethGwenythGwynneth

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Gwyneth by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,771
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 329
Best rank ever
#892
2013
Peak year
2013
288 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,657
Count in 2025
114

Names similar to Gwyneth

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

LisbethGwynnethYamilethArlethMaribethLizabethGwynneLizethJanethMarybethLizbethAzenethKennethAnnabethGwenethJuliethArisbethElspethGwynnLilibethGwynElsbethLissethArizbeth

Names with a curve like Gwyneth

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Gwyneth, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KylahIrelandAlaysiaKarisKyndallJayleneMiyaRiyaTaliyahMakenaAnnalieseAiyana

Sibling names for Gwyneth

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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