Gwendolynn
Gwendolynn was given to 34 girls in 2025, #4,212 among girls’ names; 1,454 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,300 Americans named Gwendolynn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 10 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Gwendolynn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Gwendolynn?
#4,212 among girls’ names, 2025
Gwendolynn rose from #5,353 in 2015 to #4,212 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 14.0 to 21.2 per million.
41 babies in 2023, the peak
Gwendolynn peaked in 2023, when 41 girls were given it, #3,730 among girls’ names. The 34 births of 2025 are 83% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,212 | 21.2 |
| 2024 | 23 | #5,505 | 14.2 |
| 2023 | 41 | #3,730 | 25.6 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,512 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,136 | 15.2 |
| 2020 | 36 | #3,951 | 22.3 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,870 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 29 | #4,696 | 17.0 |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,799 | 23.2 |
| 2016 | 33 | #4,377 | 18.6 |
Every recorded year (92)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,353 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 26 | #5,209 | 14.6 |
| 2013 | 28 | #4,937 | 16.0 |
| 2012 | 20 | #6,423 | 11.4 |
| 2011 | 28 | #4,967 | 15.9 |
| 2010 | 23 | #5,848 | 12.9 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,217 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,145 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,284 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,437 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 21 | #5,881 | 11.4 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,191 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,332 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,321 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 20 | #5,652 | 11.1 |
| 2000 | 15 | #6,923 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 8 | #10,682 | 4.5 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,811 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 11 | #7,960 | 6.3 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,888 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 7 | #10,911 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,266 | 5.5 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,284 | 5.4 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,105 | 6.4 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,079 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 9 | #8,269 | 4.9 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,455 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,109 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,855 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,178 | 6.4 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,624 | 4.8 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,959 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,074 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 9 | #6,987 | 5.4 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,332 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,293 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,017 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,739 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 12 | #4,983 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 19 | #3,548 | 13.0 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,034 | 4.1 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,217 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,157 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,844 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,376 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,178 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,592 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,132 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,294 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 8 | #4,985 | 4.5 |
| 1964 | 15 | #3,425 | 7.9 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,687 | 6.7 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,093 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,372 | 7.4 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,933 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,159 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,524 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,374 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 31 | #1,944 | 15.4 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,498 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,078 | 4.6 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,143 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,607 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,078 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,283 | 11.1 |
| 1949 | 16 | #2,552 | 9.4 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,748 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,319 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 11 | #3,105 | 7.0 |
| 1945 | 11 | #2,805 | 8.4 |
| 1944 | 5 | #4,826 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,387 | 4.3 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,308 | 4.4 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,364 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,511 | 4.6 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,579 | 6.6 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,285 | 7.7 |
| 1929 | 7 | #3,830 | 6.3 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,179 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,642 | 4.9 |
| 1923 | 7 | #4,140 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,439 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Gwendolynn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Gwendolynn has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 92 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Gwendolynn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Gwendolynn, and how old are they?
1,300 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 1,454 Americans ever recorded as Gwendolynn. The median Gwendolynn alive today is 25 years old; half are between 10 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 910 people named Gwendolynn (905 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,158 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 25 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 254 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 179 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 132 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 302 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 407 |
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).
How common is the spelling Gwendolynn?
Gwendolynn is a less common spelling of Gwendolyn: SSA has recorded 1,454 Gwendolynn and 124,718 Gwendolyn since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 129,532 babies since 1880, Gwendolynn is the second most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 34 of their 922 babies (3.7%), again the second most given.
| 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 |
| Gwendolin | 79 | under 5 | 1951 |
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 Gwendolynn
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 Gwendolynn and names like it
- Compare Gwendolynn and GwendolynBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sGwendolynn peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Gwendolynn since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Gwendolynn.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Gwendolynn alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with GMost given first.