Gwendalynn
Gwendalynn was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,545 among girls’ names; 293 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwendalynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gwendalynn?
#8,545 among girls’ names, 2025
Gwendalynn rose from #12,234 in 2015 to #8,545 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 4.5 to 7.5 per million.
23 babies in 2008, the peak
Gwendalynn peaked in 2008, when 23 girls were given it, #6,007 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 52% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,545 | 7.5 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,066 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,848 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,662 | 5.5 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,814 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,798 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 8 | #11,732 | 4.8 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,525 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,016 | 4.6 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,639 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,234 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,634 | 7.3 |
| 2012 | 10 | #10,697 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 12 | #9,355 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,010 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,200 | 3.8 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,007 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,691 | 7.3 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,210 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,039 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,538 | 8.2 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,271 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,203 | 3.3 |
| 2001 | 13 | #7,890 | 7.2 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,079 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,793 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,001 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,539 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwendalynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwendalynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwendalynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwendalynn, and how old are they?
An estimated 290 Americans named Gwendalynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 17 years old and half are between 9 and 21. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 239 people named Gwendalynn (239 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 237 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Gwendalynn?
Gwendalynn is a less common spelling of Gwendalyn: SSA has recorded 293 Gwendalynn and 1,207 Gwendalyn since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 128,642 babies since 1880, Gwendalynn is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 911 babies (1.3%), the fourth most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gwendolyn | 124,718 | 848 | 1953 |
| Gwendolynn | 1,454 | 34 | 2023 |
| Gwendalyn | 1,207 | 17 | 2008 |
| Gwendlyn | 498 | under 5 | 1952 |
| Gwendelyn | 394 | under 5 | 2002 |
| Gwendalynn | 293 | 12 | 2008 |
| Gwendlyon | 78 | under 5 | 1941 |
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 Gwendalynn
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 Gwendalynn and names like it
- Compare Gwendalynn and GwendalynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sGwendalynn peaked in 2008.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Gwendalynn.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Gwendalynn alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with GMost given first.