Gwendolin
Gwendolin was last recorded in 1977, when 7 babies were given it; 79 Americans have been recorded with it between 1934 and 1977 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwendolin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gwendolin?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #7,803, in 1977; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
11 babies in 1951, the peak
Gwendolin peaked in 1951, when 11 girls were given it, #3,356 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | 7 | #7,803 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,496 | 4.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,424 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,032 | 4.1 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,375 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,920 | 3.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #6,920 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,599 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 5 | #5,996 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,356 | 6.1 |
Every recorded year (13)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 | 5 | #5,540 | 2.9 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,508 | 4.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,563 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwendolin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwendolin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 13 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwendolin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwendolin, and how old are they?
An estimated 62 Americans named Gwendolin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 237 people named Gwendolin (236 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 67 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 Gwendolin?
Gwendolin is a less common spelling of Gwendolyn: SSA has recorded 79 Gwendolin and 124,718 Gwendolyn since 1880.
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 129,239 babies since 1880, Gwendolin is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 910 babies recorded by SSA was a Gwendolin (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Gwendolin and names like it
- Compare Gwendolin and GwendolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sGwendolin peaked in 1951.
- The top names of 1951The year the most babies were named Gwendolin.
- Names starting with GMost given first.