Meaning not yet researched.
Gwyn: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #935 in 1962.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #935 in 1962; #9,681 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gwyn in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,681 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1962, at #935.
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Gwyn: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 girls in 2025. Peak: #935 in 1962 · most girls in one year: 129 (1962).
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Gwyn, making it the 9,681st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,052 places from #8,629 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 12 girls named Gwyn in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #935, reached in 1962. That year also had the most girls given the name: 129. For comparison, it was #10,394 in 2015 and #1,693 in 1950.
Fewer than five US boys were named Gwyn in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for boys. Its best rank for boys was #2,175, reached in 1935. That year also had the most boys given the name: 12. For comparison, it was unranked (under five boys) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gwyn in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 6 babies. In all, 2,414 US babies have been given the name, 88% of them girls and 12% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 750 babies named Gwyn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 101 US girls were named Gwyn; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 160,727 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Gwen (32,911 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gwynne are summarised on this page.
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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gwynne (1,433).
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 Gwyn 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 | 10 | #9,681 | — | — |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,629 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,212 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #9,955 | — | — |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,106 | — | — |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,457 | — | — |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,777 | — | — |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,866 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,547 | — | — |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,645 | — | — |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,394 | — | — |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,315 | — | — |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,291 | — | — |
| 2011 | 7 | #13,861 | — | — |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,435 | — | — |
| 2009 | 9 | #11,815 | — | — |
| 2008 | 12 | #9,692 | — | — |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,118 | — | — |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,440 | — | — |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,686 | — | — |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,007 | — | — |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,698 | — | — |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,058 | — | — |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,373 | — | — |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,320 | — | — |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,040 | — | — |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,032 | — | — |
| 1990 | 5 | #13,741 | — | — |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,603 | — | — |
| 1986 | 5 | #11,555 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,723 | — | — |
| 1984 | 5 | #10,987 | — | — |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,336 | — | — |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,077 | — | — |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,365 | — | — |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,064 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,372 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,326 | 5 | #6,152 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,117 | — | — |
| 1976 | 24 | #3,036 | — | — |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,550 | — | — |
| 1974 | 19 | #3,472 | — | — |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,421 | — | — |
| 1972 | 26 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1971 | 39 | #2,122 | — | — |
| 1970 | 47 | #1,866 | 7 | #3,999 |
| 1969 | 33 | #2,224 | — | — |
| 1968 | 38 | #1,950 | — | — |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,834 | 6 | #3,684 |
| 1965 | 45 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1964 | 86 | #1,192 | — | — |
| 1963 | 102 | #1,068 | 7 | #3,445 |
| 1962 | 129 | #935 | 6 | #3,792 |
| 1961 | 125 | #965 | — | — |
| 1960 | 100 | #1,077 | 5 | #4,268 |
| 1959 | 72 | #1,266 | 7 | #3,403 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,918 | 7 | #3,383 |
| 1957 | 44 | #1,631 | — | — |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,066 | — | — |
| 1955 | 47 | #1,485 | 6 | #3,662 |
| 1954 | 63 | #1,251 | — | — |
| 1953 | 39 | #1,571 | 7 | #3,243 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,446 | 6 | #3,514 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,470 | 6 | #3,511 |
| 1950 | 31 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1949 | 47 | #1,344 | 10 | #2,514 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,720 | 6 | #3,455 |
| 1947 | 31 | #1,734 | 7 | #3,198 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,269 | 6 | #3,134 |
| 1944 | 13 | #2,552 | 10 | #2,371 |
| 1943 | 17 | #2,185 | 7 | #3,069 |
| 1942 | 14 | #2,469 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,581 | 9 | #2,551 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,477 | 9 | #2,561 |
| 1939 | 12 | #2,480 | 11 | #2,221 |
| 1938 | 10 | #2,803 | 9 | #2,549 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,039 | 5 | #3,741 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,430 | 6 | #3,316 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,813 | 12 | #2,175 |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,011 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,980 | 11 | #2,276 |
| 1932 | 8 | #3,405 | 7 | #3,209 |
| 1931 | — | — | 8 | #2,950 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,476 | 9 | #2,866 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,017 | 7 | #3,372 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,568 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,514 | 6 | #3,945 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,470 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,188 | 6 | #3,918 |
| 1924 | — | — | 11 | #2,723 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,631 | 7 | #3,615 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,327 | — | — |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,331 |
| 1919 | — | — | 9 | #2,971 |
| 1918 | — | — | 12 | #2,454 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,163 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,577 |
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).