Gwendolynn is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Gwendolyn, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Gwendolynn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,945 in 1956.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,945 in 1956; #4,213 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gwendolynn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,213 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1956, at #1,945.
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Gwendolynn: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,945 in 1956 · most girls in one year: 41 (2023).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Gwendolynn, making it the 4,213th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,295 places from #5,508 in 2024. That is 11 more than the 23 girls named Gwendolynn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,945, reached in 1956. The most girls given the name in a single year was 41, in 2023. For comparison, it was #5,355 in 2015 and #2,284 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gwendolynn in 92 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 1,454 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 290 babies named Gwendolynn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 330 US girls were named Gwendolynn; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 41. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gwendolyn (124,718 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Gwendolynn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,213 | — | — |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,508 | — | — |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,140 | — | — |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,952 | — | — |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,871 | — | — |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,698 | — | — |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,800 | — | — |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,378 | — | — |
| 2015 | 25 | #5,355 | — | — |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,211 | — | — |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,939 | — | — |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,426 | — | — |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,969 | — | — |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,850 | — | — |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,218 | — | — |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,149 | — | — |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,287 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,439 | — | — |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,886 | — | — |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,196 | — | — |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,337 | — | — |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,325 | — | — |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,657 | — | — |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,930 | — | — |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,689 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,818 | — | — |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,965 | — | — |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,893 | — | — |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,916 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,272 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,291 | — | — |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,112 | — | — |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,085 | — | — |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,275 | — | — |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,462 | — | — |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,114 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,860 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,180 | — | — |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,627 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,960 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,076 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,989 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,333 | — | — |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,294 | — | — |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,017 | — | — |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,740 | — | — |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,985 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,549 | — | — |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,036 | — | — |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,218 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,157 | — | — |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,846 | — | — |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,377 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,179 | — | — |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,593 | — | — |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,295 | — | — |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,986 | — | — |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,373 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,160 | — | — |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,525 | — | — |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,375 | — | — |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,945 | — | — |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,499 | — | — |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,080 | — | — |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,144 | — | — |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,608 | — | — |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,749 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,321 | — | — |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,106 | — | — |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,828 | — | — |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,310 | — | — |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,366 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,513 | — | — |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,581 | — | — |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,287 | — | — |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,832 | — | — |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,181 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,643 | — | — |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,441 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).