Gwendlyn
Gwendlyn was last recorded in 2002, when 5 babies were given it; 498 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwendlyn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gwendlyn?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,343, in 2002; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1952, the peak
Gwendlyn peaked in 1952, when 20 girls were given it, #2,354 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,343 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,209 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,063 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,336 | 4.4 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,795 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,557 | 3.4 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,127 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,877 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #6,152 | 5.3 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,851 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (50)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 | 9 | #5,539 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,177 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,862 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,918 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,625 | 7.7 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,191 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,170 | 4.2 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,514 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 18 | #2,965 | 9.2 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,099 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,417 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 18 | #2,794 | 8.9 |
| 1958 | 13 | #3,433 | 6.5 |
| 1957 | 14 | #3,199 | 6.8 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,008 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,281 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,068 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,627 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,354 | 10.8 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,175 | 6.7 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,125 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,363 | 10.5 |
| 1948 | 12 | #3,036 | 7.1 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,811 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,790 | 8.3 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,792 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,496 | 6.0 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,613 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,885 | 5.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,145 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,323 | 7.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,955 | 5.5 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,000 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,718 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,069 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,814 | 6.2 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,009 | 4.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,178 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,185 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,437 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwendlyn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwendlyn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 50 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwendlyn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwendlyn, and how old are they?
An estimated 358 Americans named Gwendlyn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (72% of everyone recorded); the median is 66 years old and half are between 59 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 398 people named Gwendlyn (397 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 394 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 129,541 babies since 1880, Gwendlyn is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 922 babies recorded by SSA was a Gwendlyn (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gwendolyn | 124,718 | 848 | 1953 |
| Gwendolynn | 1,454 | 34 | 2023 |
| Gwendalyn | 1,207 | 17 | 2008 |
| Gwendolen | 889 | 11 | 1971 |
| Gwendlyn | 498 | under 5 | 1952 |
| Gwendelyn | 394 | under 5 | 2002 |
| Gwendalynn | 293 | 12 | 2008 |
| Gwendloyn | 88 | under 5 | 1959 |
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 Gwendlyn
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 Gwendlyn and names like it
- Compare Gwendlyn and GwendolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGwendlyn peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gwendlyn since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Gwendlyn.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Gwendlyn alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with GMost given first.