Meaning not yet researched.
Gwyneth: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 114 in 2025. Its best rank was #892 in 2013.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #892 in 2013; #1,771 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Gwyneth in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,771 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2013, at #892.
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Gwyneth: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 114 girls in 2025. Peak: #892 in 2013 · most girls in one year: 288 (2013).
In 2025, 114 US girls were named Gwyneth, making it the 1,771st most common girls’ name of the year, up 12 places from #1,783 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 113 girls named Gwyneth in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #892, reached in 2013. That year also had the most girls given the name: 288. For comparison, it was #1,096 in 2015 and #2,593 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Gwyneth in 110 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 11 babies. In all, 6,657 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,145 babies named Gwyneth.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,501 US girls were named Gwyneth; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 195. In 2025 that was about 1 in 14,099 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Gwyneth ranked highest in Ohio in 2025, at #833 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Gwenyth (3,268 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Gweneth, Gwenith and Gwynneth 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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Welsh. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Gweneth (1,318), Gwenith (337), Gwynneth (255), Gwenneth (204), Gwynette (29), Gwynith (12).
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 Gwyneth in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 45 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 11 | #833 | #635 |
| Virginia | 7 | #976 | #798 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,199 | #982 |
| California | 15 | #1,523 | #1,312 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,757 | #1,542 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,280 | #1,496 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 114 | #1,771 | — | — |
| 2024 | 113 | #1,783 | — | — |
| 2023 | 105 | #1,895 | — | — |
| 2022 | 150 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2021 | 149 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 2020 | 151 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 2019 | 166 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 2018 | 179 | #1,281 | — | — |
| 2017 | 179 | #1,309 | — | — |
| 2016 | 195 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2015 | 236 | #1,096 | — | — |
| 2014 | 245 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 2013 | 288 | #892 | — | — |
| 2012 | 207 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 2011 | 264 | #970 | — | — |
| 2010 | 186 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 2009 | 202 | #1,232 | — | — |
| 2008 | 196 | #1,272 | — | — |
| 2007 | 213 | #1,191 | — | — |
| 2006 | 222 | #1,123 | — | — |
| 2005 | 226 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 2004 | 251 | #957 | — | — |
| 2003 | 214 | #1,055 | — | — |
| 2002 | 209 | #1,036 | — | — |
| 2001 | 199 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2000 | 187 | #1,100 | — | — |
| 1999 | 178 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,333 | — | — |
| 1997 | 69 | #2,055 | — | — |
| 1996 | 39 | #3,051 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,066 | — | — |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,820 | — | — |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,897 | — | — |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,292 | — | — |
| 1991 | 21 | #4,703 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #5,923 | — | — |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,629 | — | — |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,405 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,396 | — | — |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,036 | — | — |
| 1985 | 18 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,387 | — | — |
| 1983 | 20 | #3,856 | — | — |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,776 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,391 | — | — |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,811 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,327 | — | — |
| 1977 | 16 | #4,288 | — | — |
| 1976 | 8 | #6,830 | — | — |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,427 | — | — |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,755 | — | — |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,526 | — | — |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,892 | — | — |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,559 | — | — |
| 1970 | 25 | #2,806 | — | — |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,950 | — | — |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,224 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,921 | — | — |
| 1966 | 18 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,622 | — | — |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,767 | — | — |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,571 | — | — |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,211 | — | — |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,374 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,935 | — | — |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,505 | — | — |
| 1958 | 18 | #2,793 | — | — |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,795 | — | — |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1955 | 22 | #2,362 | — | — |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,257 | — | — |
| 1952 | 18 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,271 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,593 | — | — |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 1947 | 16 | #2,565 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,792 | — | — |
| 1945 | 15 | #2,270 | — | — |
| 1944 | 15 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,311 | — | — |
| 1941 | 12 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 1940 | 9 | #3,059 | — | — |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,516 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1935 | 11 | #2,628 | — | — |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1933 | 14 | #2,202 | — | — |
| 1932 | 9 | #3,147 | — | — |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,598 | — | — |
| 1929 | 22 | #1,731 | — | — |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,378 | — | — |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,400 | — | — |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,848 | — | — |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,220 | — | — |
| 1922 | 9 | #3,496 | — | — |
| 1921 | 15 | #2,427 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,295 | — | — |
| 1919 | 11 | #2,883 | — | — |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,900 | — | — |
| 1917 | 17 | #2,042 | — | — |
| 1916 | 6 | #4,122 | — | — |
| 1915 | 11 | #2,603 | — | — |
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).