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Gwendolyn

Rank in 2024
#393
Born in 2024
802
Peak year
1953 · #112
Origin
Welsh

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 802 girls were named Gwendolyn, about 1 in every 2,011.
  • It peaked in 1953 with 3,518 babies, ranked #112.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 123,533 girls have been named Gwendolyn since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Gwendolyn per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.6
    Greatest
  2. 1.0
    Silent
  3. 1.5
    Boomers
  4. 0.6
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.2
    Gen Z
  7. 0.5
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 11,847 babies, 0.58 per 1,000. Silent: 20,478 babies, 0.99 per 1,000. Boomers: 53,538 babies, 1.49 per 1,000. Gen X: 15,294 babies, 0.60 per 1,000. Millennials: 5,363 babies, 0.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 7,144 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 9,582 babies, 0.47 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

A variant of Gwendolen, Gwendoline with -lyn.

  • A female given name from Welsh, variant of Gwendolen.
Origin
Welsh
Say it
Not recorded

From Wiktionary’s entry for Gwendolyn, CC BY-SA 4.0.