Guinevere
Guinevere was given to 295 girls in 2025, #899 among girls’ names; 4,592 Americans have been recorded with it since 1912 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,190 Americans named Guinevere and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (91% of everyone recorded); the median is 9 years old and half are between 4 and 19.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Guinevere by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Guinevere mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Guinevere is “a female given name from Welsh or Proto-Celtic.”
From Middle English Gwenyver, from Welsh Gwenhwyfar. Doublet of Jennifer.
/ˈɡwɪ.nə.vɪɹ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Guinevere?
#899 among girls’ names, 2025
Guinevere rose from #1,350 in 2015 to #899 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 0.10 to 0.18 per 1,000.
299 babies in 2022, the peak
Guinevere peaked in 2022, when 299 girls were given it, #917 among girls’ names. The 295 births of 2025 are 99% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 295 | #899 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 279 | #946 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 251 | #1,009 | 0.16 |
| 2022 | 299 | #917 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 268 | #968 | 0.16 |
| 2020 | 249 | #1,011 | 0.15 |
| 2019 | 188 | #1,246 | 0.11 |
| 2018 | 151 | #1,455 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 192 | #1,241 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 140 | #1,584 | 0.08 |
Every recorded year (100)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 176 | #1,350 | 0.10 |
| 2014 | 165 | #1,392 | 0.09 |
| 2013 | 127 | #1,667 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 101 | #1,944 | 0.06 |
| 2011 | 92 | #2,091 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 58 | #2,947 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,834 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,967 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 61 | #2,943 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 73 | #2,521 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 74 | #2,384 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,658 | 0.03 |
| 2003 | 57 | #2,743 | 0.03 |
| 2002 | 56 | #2,720 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 41 | #3,326 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,131 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 21 | #5,090 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,407 | 0.01 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,246 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,927 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,060 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,813 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,378 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,987 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,582 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 19 | #4,924 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,067 | under 0.01 |
| 1988 | 7 | #9,597 | under 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,700 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,266 | 0.01 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,926 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,803 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,465 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,562 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,278 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 20 | #3,891 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,292 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,303 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 20 | #3,663 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 21 | #3,319 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 14 | #4,424 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,601 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 11 | #4,998 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,156 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,091 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,476 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,532 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,300 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 9 | #4,738 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,918 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,121 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,012 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,175 | under 0.01 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,366 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,059 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,593 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,538 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,618 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,216 | under 0.01 |
| 1945 | 5 | #4,822 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,494 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,950 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,901 | under 0.01 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,142 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,508 | under 0.01 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,577 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,509 | 0.01 |
| 1935 | 16 | #2,040 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,592 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 11 | #2,645 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,470 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,507 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,564 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 16 | #2,290 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 15 | #2,398 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,679 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,893 | 0.02 |
| 1923 | 16 | #2,308 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 14 | #2,537 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,228 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 16 | #2,312 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,092 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,238 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 23 | #1,618 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 24 | #1,555 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 19 | #1,757 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,953 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 20 | #1,288 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,477 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Guinevere a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Guinevere has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 100 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Guinevere: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Guinevere, and how old are they?
4,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 91% of the 4,592 Americans ever recorded as Guinevere. The median Guinevere alive today is 9 years old; half are between 4 and 19.
The 2020 Census counted 2,514 people named Guinevere (2,500 women and girls, 14 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,661 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 31 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 37 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 206 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 237 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 913 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,760 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Guinevere born?
The states with the most babies named Guinevere are Texas, New York and California, with 29% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 34 | #864 | 0.7× |
| New York | 18 | #876 | 0.4× |
| California | 14 | #1,612 | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 13 | #525 | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #782 | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 12 | #493 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 12 | #622 | 0.8× |
| Colorado | 12 | #475 | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 11 | #832 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,274 | 0.6× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Guinevere with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 4,787 babies since 1880, Guinevere is the most given (96% of them). In 2025 it was given to 295 of their 295 babies (100%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Guinevere
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Guinevere and names like it
- Compare Guinevere and GuenevereBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGuinevere peaked in 2022.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Guinevere since 1910.
- Welsh namesWiktionary’s origin for Guinevere: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Guinevere.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Guinevere alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.